RolfAndreassen comments on The ethics of breaking belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 09 May 2012 01:42:51AM 0 points [-]

I really don't see why. A zebra crossing is a sequence of black and white stripes. Exchanging the colours just means you start with white instead of black, or vice-versa. It's the stripiness that's important, not the ordering.

Comment author: albeola 09 May 2012 01:52:12AM *  1 point [-]

I was assuming you'd see both colors as the same. Then a zebra crossing would just look like an ordinary stretch of road. That wouldn't kill you. What would kill you is to see an ordinary stretch of road as a zebra crossing. If that were to happen, though, it definitely wouldn't be at the next zebra crossing.