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Yvain comments on [link] SMBC on utilitarianism and vegatarianism. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Yvain 16 October 2011 09:04:28PM 11 points [-]

Really? I would have gone the opposite way - utilitarianism seems to tell me that if cows have nonzero value then a certain number of them must add up to one human, but I have much stronger mental conditioning against killing humans than cows.