TheOtherDave comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 April 2012 09:35:20PM 0 points [-]

Welcome! FWIW, your thoughts about democracy, equality under the law, and the utility of killing people are not uncommon around here. Possibly your thoughts about utilitarianism are as well, although it depends rather a lot on what you consider a better system to base anything on, and on just what you mean by "utilitarianism".

Comment author: Elithrion 02 April 2012 10:42:25PM 0 points [-]

Well, at the very least, I am fairly confident that my particular conclusions about what alternative systems I prefer are not common. As evidence of deviation from the mean, I find myself more in favour of legal infanticide (or even filicide depending on your preferred age ranges for each word) than the most pro-infanticide positions expressed in that big debate down below, which in my case is merely a quick consequence of other, possibly more unusual, positions.

Maybe I'll do a summary in the actual discussion area when I feel up to it, or if people are genuinely curious as to what my positions are.