Decius comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: Decius 07 May 2013 10:05:18PM 0 points [-]

While you are required to judge others using all of the information available to you, you are not required to inform them of that fact prior to gathering some information.

For example, one can privilege themselves without being evil, even when that means that one or more babies starve that didn't strictly need to, or a section of space that could contain an asteroid that will destroy humanity remains unchecked.