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endoself comments on Why Do We Engage in Moral Simplification? - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Wei_Dai 14 February 2011 01:16AM

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Comment author: endoself 18 February 2011 01:59:54AM 2 points [-]

You still agree that is it wrong for morals not to depend on numbers of people, you just propose a different alternate decision system. Eliezer's example of willingness to donate to sick children in Israel could be included in some extremely convoluted but consistent decision process but, upon reflection, we find that this is not what we think is right.