John_Maxwell_IV comments on So you say you're an altruist... - Less Wrong

11 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 March 2009 10:15PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 14 March 2009 05:25:42PM 2 points [-]

All right: why should my definition of 'better' involve caring for others?

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 14 March 2009 08:01:12PM 5 points [-]

Well, if you really don't care at all for other people, I don't think there's much I can do to bring you around. All I can say is that suffering is suffering and pleasure is pleasure, even if you aren't the one experiencing it.