wedrifid comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 May 2013 01:04:30AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure why this comment was at -1; despite the angry tone, it makes some interesting points.

I've just downvoted it at your prompting. It raised confused, nonsense points with both excessive confidence and completely unnecessary tone.

As noted above, 50 years of torture WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES is a fucking useless, contradictory definition that's part of an overzealous effort to confuse intuition.

Torture without any consequences except the torture itself is not contradictory. The claim of 'overzealous effort to confuse intuition' is also absurd. Even if multiheaded's objection were remotely reasonable it clearly isn't the case that the scenario was constructed in that way with a motive of overzealous effort to confuse intuition. That is just terrible mind reading (to the extent that the accusation is disingenuous).