wedrifid comments on The Psychological Diversity of Mankind - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 January 2013 07:20:06AM 5 points [-]

Throw the baby in the opposite direction to the one you're headed in.

Don't deny the counterfactual. Or if you must, just do so explicitly. Answering with a response that violates the premises given is merely muddled thinking.

(In this case there is technically nothing that prevents you from throwing the baby but by the same rules the army is still going to find and kill you all. You achieve nothing except traumatizing the baby before it dies.)