All right, everybody, Stavallan, you can free domain. Welcome to the first post-Christmas

show 2025. Hey, Steph, my question is on necessary evil. Is there such a thing? My thoughts

are, evil is the unwanted use of force against you, but say you push someone out of the way from

getting hit by a car. That is preferable to getting hit by the car,

even though unwanted force is used.

Actually, it's kind of interesting.

There was a sort of AI video that was floating around,

I guess, usual suspect sewing division among the Saxes of the West,

and it was the sort of ostensible story was a guy did just that, right? The story was that he

pushed a woman out of the way of an oncoming car and she got mad and she sued him and all this kind of stuff, right? Now, I think there's some other stories that have been along those lines,

but this one in particular was a sort of AI lie,

just, you know, standard fifth-generation warfare stuff.

And it's a very interesting question.

It goes way back to sort of the ethics of emergencies.

I wrote an article like almost 20 years ago about the issue, oh, if you, if you, if you care so much about

property rights, then if someone is hanging off a flagpole, they fell off a roof, they're hanging

off a flagpole right outside your window where they are to kick it in and climb into your house and save themselves from falling.

And if you say yes, then clearly human life is more important than property rights.

Therefore, you can violate property rights to save human life, therefore welfare state.

Or another example is your wife is dying of a horrible disease and a doctor has a cure,

but he will only sell it to you for $100,000 and you don't have $100,000.

Are you allowed to steal the medicine from him and save your wife?

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