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

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Comment author: Manon_de_Gaillande 29 January 2008 07:43:00PM 1 point [-]

I think I've found one of the factors (besides scope insensivity) involved in the intuitive choice: in real life, a small amount of harm inflicted n times to one person has negative side-effects which don't happen when you inflict it once to n persons. Even though there aren't any in this thought experiment, we are so used to it we probably take it into account (at least I did).