Sewing-Machine comments on To capture anti-death intuitions, include memory in utilitarianism - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 15 January 2014 06:27AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 January 2014 01:13:09PM 1 point [-]

If a living person X is painlessly murdered at time T, then this is worse than if the X's parents had simply chosen not to have a child at time T-20, even though both acts would have resulted in X not existing at time T+1.

I don't share this intuition.