How much harm do you contribute by working to enable military robots?
How much harm do you contribute by paying taxes to the US government, part of which are used to fund military robots?
How much harm do you contribute by existing, living in the US, and absorbing a huge amount of electricity and other natural resources?
Well, that was voted down pretty rapidly :)
However, I was being honest with my questions. I'd like to know what sort of utilon adjustments people assign to these different situations, even if it's just a general weighting like 'high' or 'low'.
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