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G "Greetings, Gnome With The Wand Of Death here. Have you any last requests?"
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@ "How can you do this, GWTWOD? How can you justify your work ethically?"
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@ "Let's look at this from a Kantian deontological standpoint."
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@ "As your motive is purely self-interest, you don't have any moral grounds for killing me."
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G "True, true. However, young scallywag, I follow a utilitarian ethical system."
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G "Although I may be acting purely within my own self-interest..."
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G "By not killing you it is inevitable that you will go on to kill several hundred monsters."
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G "Also, your ultimate goal is to place absolute power within the domain of a god..."
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G "Thus, a major loss by you is offset by several gains by others."
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G "And another thing."
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G "I gots me a Wand O' friggin Death, fool! Ya think I'm NOT gonna use it!?"
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