re: #147 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

The connotation of calling something better is that it is better than the other thing. something that is very very bad is better than is something that is very very very bad. This is what chemotherapy, many military decisions, and heartbreaking choices about survival are made of.

Well, since we are into specific examples, I’ll just write down the most expected one: It can be argued that Stalin was less harmful than Hitler for some groups, that it was right to support him during WWII and so on, but I will insist that Stalin wasn’t better than Hitler. Someone who has killed X millions isn’t better than someone who has killed Y millions. (Disclaimer: this illustrates the principle and doesn’t compare any group to Stalin or Hitler.)

It is actually a different idea that you are communicating

I was communicating a different idea, and then I also agreed with what you wrote. No contradiction.