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

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 28 January 2008 06:16:57PM 1 point [-]

Favoring an unconditional social injunction against valuing money over lives is consistent with risking one's own life for money; you could reason that if trading off money and other people's lives is permitted at all, this power will be abused so badly that an unconditional injunction has the best expected consequences. I don't think this is true (because I don't think such an injunction is practical), but it's at least plausible.