mkehrt comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong
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I completely lack the moral intuition that one should create new conscious beings if one knows that they will be happy. Instead, my ethics apply only to existing people. I am actually completely baffled that so many people seem to have this intuition.
Thus, there is no reason to copy Bob. (Moreover, I avoid the repugnant condition.)