ArisKatsaris comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 11 September 2012 10:04:37AM *  -1 points [-]

In another words. I would vaccinate everybody (the vaccination causes discomfort) to eliminate a deadly disease like Ebola which kills few.

What would you do?

I don't think you understand the logic behind the anti-speckers's choice. It isn't that we always oppose the greater number of minor disutilities. It's that we believe that there's an actual judgment to be made given the specific disutilities and numbers involved -- you on the other hand just ignore the numbers involved altogether.

I would vaccinate everyone to eradicate Ebola which kills few. But I would not vaccinate everyone to eradicate a different disease that mildly discomforts few only slightly more so than the vaccination process itself.

Comment author: Thomas 11 September 2012 10:16:59AM -1 points [-]

I don't think you understand the logic behind the anti-speckers's choice.

The logic is: Integrate two evils through time and eliminate that which has a bigger integral!

I just don't agree with it.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 11 September 2012 10:20:06AM -1 points [-]

May I ask if you consider yourself a deontologist, a consequentialist, or something else?