Desrtopa comments on Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 27 September 2011 07:49:21PM *  0 points [-]

We would never expect the doctors to cut the guy up, but hardly any doctors would cut the guy up. Doctors are drawn from the same pool as the rest of society, so society's expectations of their behavior are pretty much on point.

In a world where doctors were likely to cut the person up, the public would also be a lot more likely to expect doctors to cut the person up.