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endoself comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: endoself 06 March 2011 06:04:39AM 1 point [-]

I agree with all this.

Even in a non-consequentialist morality, the way that the number was presented implied that two things were being balanced in some way. It is extremely unlikely for a human to have a number like 100 000 just built into their value system, even if it would be internally consistent.