MugaSofer comments on Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 29 November 2012 10:18:23PM -1 points [-]

My point is that duty, while worth encouraging throughout society, is screened off by most utilitarian calculations; as such it is a bias if, rationally, the other choice is superior.