Nick_Tarleton comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong
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Phil, a sufficiently altruistic person would accept 25 years of torture to spare someone else 50, but that doesn't mean it's better to torture 3^^^3 people for 25 years (even if they're all willing) than one person for 50 years.