Christian_Szegedy comments on The Preference Utilitarian’s Time Inconsistency Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 15 January 2010 08:42:16AM *  0 points [-]

There is a huge difference between choosing a random person to kill and endangering someone.

Our society already expects that there are risks to life that are not killing: for example airlines can make analysis about how much certain security procedures cost and how much lives do they save. If they can show that if it costs more than (I guess) 7 million dollars to save one life, then it is not reasonable to implement that measure.