hyporational comments on Self-serving meta: Whoever keeps block-downvoting me, is there some way to negotiate peace? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 18 November 2013 01:22:39PM *  2 points [-]

But a thing can have predictable consequences that are not reasons for your doing it.

Well, you got me here. I think the expected positive value of the action is so low that using that as justification for the highly probable negative value seems kinda weird. Surgeons don't usually cut people up just because it might have some benefit.