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14 Post author: XiXiDu 08 March 2011 02:48PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 March 2011 02:59:33PM 4 points [-]

Using scope insensitivity and high-risk to justify action, outweigh low probabilities and disregard opposing evidence.

This is true, but I think the problem goes even further than this: many people are unwilling to make what Less Wrong readers would consider the "obvious" utilitarian choice, e.g. in a scenario like Torture vs. Dust Specks. Outsiders probably consider these unintuitive moral decisions weird at best and scary at worst.