steven0461 comments on Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 31 January 2012 10:46:01PM *  3 points [-]

It seems worth it to distinguish explicitly between 1) consulting certain counterfactual versions of oneself to figure out what ethical theory to use (which is what I understand CEV to do), and 2) using the ethical theory that says to maximize quality of life as defined by the judgment of certain counterfactual versions of the liver.