Jess_Riedel comments on Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jess_Riedel 10 February 2010 03:13:16PM *  3 points [-]

In most books, insurance fraud is morally equivalent to stealing. A deontological moral philosophy might commit you to donating all your disposable income to GiveWell-certified charities while not permitting you to kill yourself for the insurance money. But, yea, utilitarians will have a hard time explaining why they don't do this.