My opinion is that any hypothetical scenario that balances death against other considerations is a mistake. This depends entirely upon a particular agent’s utility function regarding death, which is almost certainly at some extreme and possibly entirely disconnected from more routine utility (to the extent that comparative utility may not exist as a useful concept at all).
The only reason for this sort of extreme-value breakage appears to be some rhetorical purpose, especially in posts with this sort of title.
My opinion is that any hypothetical scenario that balances death against other considerations is a mistake. This depends entirely upon a particular agent’s utility function regarding death, which is almost certainly at some extreme and possibly entirely disconnected from more routine utility (to the extent that comparative utility may not exist as a useful concept at all).
The only reason for this sort of extreme-value breakage appears to be some rhetorical purpose, especially in posts with this sort of title.