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Comment author: wedrifid 15 February 2011 03:38:52AM *  2 points [-]

Most of the usual thought experiments that justify expected utilitarialism

Is this question only intended for people who do not believe expected utilitarialism is not obviously abominable? I mean... it has SUM() built in as the intrinsic aggregation tool. SUM isn't even remotely stable, let alone an ideal to aspire to.