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Comment author: lmm 20 November 2013 10:39:18AM 0 points [-]

Still doesn't explain people paying less to save 20000 birds than to save 2000.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 21 November 2013 09:01:35AM 1 point [-]

Saving 10 times more birds would make me 10 times more happy. Therefore, I would make a bigger celebration afterwards. But the celebration also comes from my limited budget, so there would be less money left to contribute to saving the birds.

(End of rationalization exercise.)

Comment author: Desrtopa 20 November 2013 04:41:01PM 0 points [-]

I never claimed that no effective demonstrations of scope insensitivity exist.