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Dagon comments on [Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 18 February 2014 08:17:50AM 1 point [-]

In that case (which I believe is not true for almost any modern human, so this is a purely theoretical answer), it's logical to conclude that it'd be good for you to cease to exist. In order to prefer that others so cease (assuming you're a utilitiarian), you'd need to believe that every individual has a similar weighting.

Comment author: dunno 18 February 2014 12:03:49PM 0 points [-]

If I ceased to exist there would still be people that suffered without a choice. Ceasing to exist wouldn't change this while if everything ceased to exist, it'd change.