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40 Post author: gothgirl420666 13 July 2013 02:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 July 2013 05:54:40PM *  1 point [-]

How does a rational consequentialist altruist think about moral luck and butterflies?

http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=226

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 July 2013 06:03:20PM 11 points [-]

There's no point in worrying about the unpredictable consequences of your actions because you have no way of reliably affecting them by changing your actions.