prase comments on Utilitarianism twice fails - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 21 February 2013 06:12:52PM 2 points [-]

I think North Korea is no problem for the quoted sentence. I interpret it as saying that the government doesn't care about the wants of non-citizens, rather than asserting that the government cares about a significant number of citizens.

Nevertheless, even assuming this interpretation it is still not self-evident.