CronoDAS comments on Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 October 2009 01:43AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 26 October 2009 04:33:48AM 2 points [-]

Is the decision that leads to 3,000 deaths similar to the decision to use natural gas heat instead of oil heat? Gas explosions do kill people, after all...

Comment author: teageegeepea 26 October 2009 06:13:31PM 0 points [-]

Alex Tabarrok memorably pointed out that issue a while back, though it was in reference to coal mining.

Comment author: wedrifid 26 October 2009 07:09:12AM 0 points [-]

Is the decision that leads to 3,000 deaths similar to the decision to use natural gas heat instead of oil heat? Gas explosions do kill people, after all...

All else being equal (risks of oil heat?), yes.