knb comments on Punishing future crimes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: knb 29 January 2011 06:10:42AM 12 points [-]

It is interesting that utilitarian ethics would allow you to kill Hitler, but not steal his wallet.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 January 2011 10:24:32AM 4 points [-]

Proper tool for the job!

Comment author: Strange7 02 February 2011 02:52:22AM 0 points [-]

Utilitarian ethics might allow you to steal his walled and spend the money on feeding orphans, provided you also killed him in the process.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 31 January 2011 02:37:06PM 0 points [-]

They can also allow you to preemptively invade countries, but not to molest kittens.