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shokwave comments on Antisocial personality traits predict utilitarian responses to moral dilemmas - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Vladimir_M 23 August 2011 09:13AM

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Comment author: shokwave 23 August 2011 11:07:02AM 9 points [-]

Kind and philosophical utilitarians of the sort one meets on LW would be extremely unlikely to act in practice according to the implications of their favored theories in real-life "sacrificial" situations

I don't think you should be quite so certain of this.