Watercressed comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Watercressed 07 September 2013 02:17:01AM *  0 points [-]

But if we're 99.9% confident that a child is going to die (say, they have a very terminal disease), is being cruel to the child 99.99% less bad?

Comment author: wedrifid 07 September 2013 08:36:14AM *  1 point [-]

But if we're 99.9% confident that a child is going to die (say, they have a very terminal disease), is being cruel to the child 99.99% less bad?

No.

(If this is making some clever rhetorical point then perhaps consider a quotation? Right now it is just a rather easy question.)