mitchell_porter2 comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mitchell_porter2 31 January 2008 04:50:00AM 0 points [-]

There is yet another angle on this dilemma which hasn't been raised yet. How bad is the outcome you are willing to prefer, in order to avoid those 3^^^3 dust specks? Are you willing to have the torture victim killed after the 50 years? How about all life on Earth? How about all life in the visible universe? I presume that truly convinced additivists will say yes in every case, because they "know" that 3^^^3 dust specks would still be incomprehensibly worse.