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Comment author: gjm 22 October 2013 10:59:59PM *  2 points [-]

What if, for practical purposes, there is an inexhaustible supply of suck?

Well, that would be very bad, and it might mean that an altruist of the sort I describe would in fact think the best course of action would be relentless suck-mitigation, for ever. A world of relentless suck-mitigation wouldn't be a lot of fun, but if you're faced with an inexhaustible supply of suck it might be the best you could do.

[EDITED to add: I see you've been downvoted. For what it's worth, that wasn't me.]