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Comment author: [deleted] 17 January 2013 01:51:22AM 1 point [-]

They almost certainly are on the margin (think taylor series approx of utility function). Get to the point where you are talking about killing a significant fraction of the sparrow population, then there's no reason to think so.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 January 2013 04:34:19AM 2 points [-]

They almost certainly are on the margin

True, but this doesn't apply to MugaSofer's claim that

there is presumably a number of sparrows worth killing for.