BerryPick6 comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2007 02:50AM

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Comment author: BerryPick6 09 February 2013 02:00:54PM 0 points [-]

What makes you think that making the numbers bigger changes anything? Anyone who switches answers between the original question and yours is confused.

Comment author: ekramer 10 February 2013 12:02:45PM 0 points [-]

So you would be willing to keep sending more and more people to torture for trivial less discomfort for the majority for each person tortured. At what point would you say enough is enough?

Comment author: BerryPick6 10 February 2013 02:45:26PM *  1 point [-]

Once the positive consequences are outweighed by the negative consequences, obviously.