blacktrance comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: blacktrance 10 February 2014 10:09:04PM -2 points [-]

Isn't the Nazi harmed when you lie to him, and he doesn't get to catch the hidden Jew?

I would argue that the Nazi isn't really harmed when you lie to him, because not having a preference satisfied is not necessarily harm.