Comment on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:21:01 GMT

Upvoting back to zero because I think this is an important question to address.

If I prefer that people not be tortured, and that's more important to me than anything else, then I ought not prefer a system that puts all the torturers in their own part of the world where I don't have to interact with them over a system that prevents them from torturing.

More generally, this strategy only works if there's nothing I prefer/antiprefer exist, but merely things that I prefer/antiprefer to be aware of.

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