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> A 10% chance of killing one person is better than a 1% chance of killing 100 people.

It's only true if you forget about the original objective: killing bad guys. This objective is in place not because of some sports, but because bad guys actually kill other innocent people.

So if you calculate how many innocent lives you save in the second option, it still looks quite better.



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