TheOtherDave comments on When None Dare Urge Restraint, pt. 2 - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Jay_Schweikert 30 May 2012 03:28PM

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Comment author: Ezekiel 31 May 2012 12:11:18AM 1 point [-]

As an explicit example of this, Jewish Orthodox doctrine has it that anyone who dies "for the sanctification of The Name" gets an automatic ticket to Awesome Afterlife. The thing is, that class includes those murdered by anti-Semites - so you can go to Heaven for someone else's bigotry.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 31 May 2012 03:32:43AM 1 point [-]

Well, if we're concerned about consequences of actions rather than some other metric of moral value, that's not unreasonable.