From: Wei Dai (weidai@weidai.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 13:08:58 MDT
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:54AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
> I don't think most of us would agree that this is a truly altruistic
> action, even among people such as I have described, who are not bothered
> by the killing of others. Killing all but one of them is incredibly
> harmful and is not altruistic in any meaningful sense of the word.
>
> Therefore I still claim that averagism is not a legitimate form of
> altruism.
There are variants of averagism that is not as vulnerable to
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