TheOtherDave comments on Some reservations about Singer's child-in-the-pond argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 June 2013 08:24:53PM 5 points [-]

Well, unless what you happen to value is discharging your obligations, in which case the whole consequentialist/deontologist divide fades away altogether.

Comment author: DSherron 20 June 2013 08:47:12PM 1 point [-]

Right, that's the thought that motivated the "probably" at the end. Although it feels pretty strongly like motivated cognition to actually propose such an argument.