Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Effective Altruism Through Advertising Vegetarianism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 10:37:27PM 2 points [-]

Arguably worth it for $30 of reduced guilt, bragging rights and twisted, warped enjoyment of ethical weirdness.

Comment author: Decius 14 June 2013 04:31:31AM 0 points [-]

Using the worst estimate, that would mean that it's arguable that a 1 in 50 chance of killing a child under 5 is worth that much reduced guilt, bragging rights, and twisted, warped enjoyment of ethical weirdness.

I'd call you a monster, but I'd totally take actions which fail to prevent the death of an entire kid I'd never meet anyway if I could do so without suffering any risk of being blamed and could get a warped enjoyment of ethical weirdness.

We monsters.