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drethelin comments on Open thread, July 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: drethelin 28 July 2013 03:38:17AM 6 points [-]

Why is that a fallacy? You SHOULD weight deaths that happen to people closer to and more like you more heavily. They're more likely to be indicative of risk of death to yourself, they are more likely to affect you in other ways, and they're more likely to be affect able BY you.