Comment on Torture vs. Dust Specks

Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:47:19 GMT

I think that's what my intuition wants to do anyway: care about how badly off the worst-off person is, and try to improve that.

I find it hard to believe that you believe that. Under that metric, for example, "pick a thousand happy people and kill their dogs" is a completely neutral act, along with lots of other extremely strange results.

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