simon2 comments on True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simon2 05 February 2009 12:24:39PM 4 points [-]

Also, I think I would prefer blowing up the nova instead. The babyeater's children's suffering is unfortunate no doubt but hey, I spend money on ice cream instead of saving starving children in Africa. The superhappies' degrading of their own, more important, civilization is another consideration.

(you may correctly protest about the ineffectiveness of aid - but would you really avoid ice cream to spend on aid, if it were effective and somehow they weren't saved already?)