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TheOtherDave comments on Torturing people for fun - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: cousin_it 14 February 2011 08:52PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 February 2011 09:57:41PM 1 point [-]

I can certainly imagine situations where I would choose to kill babies (for example, where I estimate a high probability that this baby continuing to live will result in other people dying), but I assume that doesn't qualify as "intrinsically the right thing to do."

That said, I'm not sure what would.