teageegeepea 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.