Today's post, Circular Altruism was originally published on 22 January 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

Our moral preferences shouldn't be circular. If a policy A is better than B, and B is better than C, and C is better than D, and so on, then policy A really should be better than policy Z.

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