Comment on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 117

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:57:39 GMT

Sure you can. Life is full of trade offs. When the tradeoff is sufficiently in your favor, you rejoice. Sometimes that involves people dying.

That's... more than a little sociopathic. You seem to be saying that the only value of people's lives to you is instrumental: if you benefit from someone's death overall, then their death is a good thing.

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