prase comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 28 August 2012 08:40:15PM 1 point [-]

By the same logic, doesn't everyone who steals X money, where X happens to be higher than the value of life, become a humanitarian hero?

By which I mean that I don't understand your point. You seem to indirectly accuse me of commiting a fallacy, yet I don't know which one.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 August 2012 08:47:50PM 2 points [-]

Nope, wasn't accusing you of anything. I was just amused by the point that anyone who wants to save as many lives as possible, but has only a finite amount of oil, must be able to state some consistent value of human life in terms of barrels of oil, since otherwise you could rearrange the oil to save more lives.

Comment author: prase 28 August 2012 09:07:41PM 0 points [-]

I am probably becoming a bit paranoid lately.