Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Stupid Questions Thread - January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 15 January 2014 05:15:43PM 0 points [-]

That way it looks. And this is probably part of being human.

I'd like to rephrase your answer as follows to drive home that ethics is most driven by empathy:

Humans mostly act as though they are utility monsters with respect to entities they have empathy with; they act as though the utility of entities they have no empathy toward is vastly smaller than the utility of those they relate to and so caring for them is always the best option.