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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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No, I haven't thought about actively preventing the mass murder of people who have more than me.
This nihilistic worldview, expressed by you and the others commenting and downvoting me will kill more than the 1 percenters.
It's not people who have more than you, it's people who have more than everyone else combined! At one point (not sure of current numbers) SEVEN people had more wealth between tham than the poorest fifty percent.
That's 7 people vs 350 000 000 000 people.
Are any of those seven people really more than fifty billion times more valuable than a homeless child in Delhi?
So we should kill them?
But to answer your question, of course they are not intrinsically more valuable than any other human. Their lives are worth exactly the same as any others. They're the same as those fighting in Ukraine. They're the same as the migrants that died on that ship trying to get to a better life.
This question is flawed. We should be looking at how best to raise the standard of living across the world.