You said it yourself. That's exactly what I was excluding with the word "random" (your example refers to the warped assumption that the slaughtered retainers, etc., could go on to serve their leader in a supposed afterlife).
That's a naive statement - LAWS are defined by the majority, but there are eternal goods and evils. There's no society in the history of mankind that has ever supported killing of random community members.
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You said it yourself. That's exactly what I was excluding with the word "random" (your example refers to the warped assumption that the slaughtered retainers, etc., could go on to serve their leader in a supposed afterlife).
That's a naive statement - LAWS are defined by the majority, but there are eternal goods and evils. There's no society in the history of mankind that has ever supported killing of random community members.