Ben:
"but a vote the other way potentially has 3^^^3 dust specks on your conscience - by your definition a much greater sin. Square one - shut up and vote!"
When presented with voting, each of the 3^^^3-1 people favored the dust specks (and their larger natural harm) to the torture (and its larger aggregated "mental distress"). The mental distress exists only on the basis of "sacred values". To say that in the face of 3^^^3-1 people preferring specks to torture, you should vote torture on the naive utility construction (no exte... (read more)
Ben:
"but a vote the other way potentially has 3^^^3 dust specks on your conscience - by your definition a much greater sin. Square one - shut up and vote!"
When presented with voting, each of the 3^^^3-1 people favored the dust specks (and their larger natural harm) to the torture (and its larger aggregated "mental distress"). The mental distress exists only on the basis of "sacred values". To say that in the face of 3^^^3-1 people preferring specks to torture, you should vote torture on the naive utility construction (no exte... (read more)