MugaSofer comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: jt4242 25 April 2013 04:13:16PM 2 points [-]

If you disregard the happiness of the women, anyway

No, it suffices if less women's happiness sacrificed are needed than the amount of men whose happiness will be increased (assuming the "amount of happiness" - whatever that is to mean in the first place - is equal per individual). Then you can regard the happiness of women and still score a net increase in happiness. That's the whole point of the argument.

I don't understand what you were saying in the second sentence.

Comment author: MugaSofer 26 April 2013 12:48:12PM *  -1 points [-]

No, it suffices if less women's happiness sacrificed are needed than the amount of men whose happiness will be increased (assuming the "amount of happiness" - whatever that is to mean in the first place - is equal per individual). Then you can regard the happiness of women and still score a net increase in happiness. That's the whole point of the argument.

^ Upvoted for this.

I don't understand what you were saying in the second sentence.

If you reject deals with positive expected outcomes because they violate some sort of ethical law, you're a deontologist. That's what deontology is.