DanielLC comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 11 August 2015 10:25:47PM 3 points [-]

Deontology is funny like that. Making a one-in-a-million chance of each of a million people dying is fine, but killing one is not. Not even if you make it a lottery so each of them has a one-in-a-million chance of dying, since you're still killing them.