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CarlShulman comments on Is Equality Really about Diminishing Marginal Utility? - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Ghatanathoah 04 December 2012 11:03PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 04 December 2012 11:47:53PM 1 point [-]

I don't think so, for any strong version of 'standard.' There's a simple modification where instead of the monster eating everyone else, the monster eats all the food that would have sustained everyone else, on triage grounds.