Decius comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 24 November 2014 11:58:13PM 0 points [-]

I look at a box of 100 bullets, and I know that it would be trivial for me to be in mortal danger from any one of them, but the box is perfectly safe.

It is trivial-ish for me to meet a trivial number of people and start to care about them, but it is certainly nontrivial to encounter a nontrivial number of people.