Epiphany comments on Female Test Subject - Convince Me To Get Cryo - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 30 September 2012 09:56:30PM *  1 point [-]

Survivor guilt

Hmmm. These are really good points. I do feel guilty about the idea of living a really long time while a lot of others don't. That may be what triggered my first big objection - that you could save a lot of people with that money. Now I wonder if that objection was a rationalization of some type of survivor's guilt. I think that this is likely. Very good point. Now I'm wondering what the nature of this survivor's guilt is, for me.

I still feel survivor's guilt, actually. Even though it's not attached to a specific objection any longer - the objection about saving starving children has been rebutted.

New objection - Survivor's Guilt

it will seriously ruin the just world hypothesis

That's already seen as a fallacy isn't it?

Comment author: thomblake 02 October 2012 01:15:33PM 0 points [-]

That's already seen as a fallacy isn't it?

Well, more relevantly it's seemingly assumed by most of the population.