Psychohistorian comments on The Price of Integrity - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: Aurini 23 July 2009 04:30AM

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 23 July 2009 07:30:01PM 3 points [-]

What if you were ordered to convert to Islam or watch someone else be shot? 10 people? 10,000 people? When do you convert, if ever? After all, he's the crazy person killing people, not you. If you do convert, why does it make such a difference who the gun is pointed at? Why is it more moral to sacrifice your own life to a madman than it is to sacrifice someone else's?