Some people feel ashamed when doing this kind of math with human lives. I feel ashamed when not doing it.
Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, London, 2018, p. 138
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Paul Bloom
It is because of empathy that we often enact savage laws or enter into terrible wars; our feeling for the suffering of the few leads to disastrous consequences for the many.
Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, New York, 2016, p. 127