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

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 30 January 2008 02:26:00PM 0 points [-]

What if everyone would be willing to individually suffer 10 years of torture to spare the one person? Obviously it's not better to torture 3^^^3 people for 10 years than one person for 50 years.