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That relates more to purposefully harming some people to safe other people. Doing something that has the potential to harm a person but statistically has a greater likelihood of helping them is something doctors do all the time. They will even use methods that are guaranteed to do harm to the patient, as long as they have a sufficient chance to also bring a major benefit to the same patient


An example being: surgery. You cut into the patient to remove the tumor.




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