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6 Post author: kokotajlod 18 July 2014 08:22PM

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Comment author: Toggle 19 July 2014 03:37:15AM *  1 point [-]

What's the alternative? The question isn't whether this moral heuristic is flawed (it is), but whether it's advantageous.

That, in turn, will depend on more than your expectation of FAI behavior. How do those FAI expectations differ from your existing moral framework?