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NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 12 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Xachariah 25 March 2012 11:01AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 March 2012 05:52:17PM 1 point [-]

"Their death" is too abstract, I think. The world might be better is a person died suddenly by accident, but not better if they were killed.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 27 March 2012 07:14:09PM 0 points [-]

Surely it's no more abstract than "deserve death"? Such a person would deserve to die suddenly by accident, but not deserve to be killed.