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36 Post author: lsparrish 03 August 2010 07:57PM

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Comment author: steven0461 05 August 2010 06:28:17PM *  2 points [-]

Every time you spend some amount of money on that order or some multiple thereof, do you think about whether what you're doing is more important than that many children's lives? Or is it just with medical procedures that have some chance of saving your life? Or is cryonics in particular being singled out for some reason?

Why encourage people to make a mistake in one domain, just because they're already making the same mistake in many other domains?

Comment author: ata 06 August 2010 03:59:07AM *  3 points [-]

It wasn't completely a rhetorical question. I actually did want to see if jtolds applied that standard consistently; I wasn't necessarily saying that that's a bad idea. (Myself, I remain confused about that question. A typical consequentialism would seem to compel me to weigh any cost against that of saving a life, but I'm not sure whether I have to bite that bullet or if I'm doing something wrong.)