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What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.) (thelemmy.club)

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In various technical contexts

You probably do this all the time without thinking much about it. For example, updating mains-powered devices without UPS. There's a chance the power goes out and something gets screwed up.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Roll the dice, hope for the best and all that. If power goes out, you could be looking at several days of troubleshooting, but it is unlikely to happen.

On the other hand, you could get that UPS, but that’s going to take time, and the server really needs those security patches today. Are you going to roll that dice instead and hope nobody tries to exploit a new vulnerability discovered this morning?

Either way, it’s pretty bad.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"lesser risk" is a lot different than "lesser evil"

so is "higher cost"

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

yeah I was unimpressed with those examples. usually its something where you have no real choice.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but depending on where you live that would be a freak accident and not something worth considering. In my entire life I have never experienced a mains power outage, it's not really a thing in Germany

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, where I live it happens like once every two-three years, usually during winter storms so it's easy to avoid doing it then.