Jiro comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: Jiro 18 October 2014 09:26:24AM * 0 points [-]

The way you put it, it seems like you want to care for both X and Y but are unable to.

"I want to care for an arbitrarily chosen person from the set of X and Y" is not "I want to care for X and Y". It's "I want to care for X or Y".