Baughn comments on Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 15 February 2013 04:32:59PM *  0 points [-]

Well. Morality may be subjective, but morality encodes preferences over states of the universe.

Yours may discount states that are far away and don't reach you; mine doesn't, so I'm with the Lord Pilot here. It would be impossible for me to satisfy my sense of ethics without doing something about the Babyeaters, even if that requires splitting humanity.