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What if it causes someone in, say, Massachusetts to memorize the face and name of a missing child in, say, California and doing so causes them to forget or concentrate less on some local missing child?



I don't think people have a "missing children" memory buffer like that. I might be wrong though. If anyone has links to articles on human memory segmentation it would probably be interesting.


Probably not. I'm just saying, the "if only one child is saved!" argument is flawed, and ignores things like opportunity costs.




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