No, this isn’t a time to signal a naive morality to idealistic lesswrong members. It is a time to shut up, multiply and protect. This Wedrifid is a vampire, he has what it takes.
Since I’m not arguing about whether the decision is correct, rather that the disutility of having a person killed doesn’t diminish from the decision to kill them being correct, it’s confusing why the thrust of your replies is on correctness of the decision, dismemberment of arguments for its incorrectness, even the ones clearly not advanced by anyone, and glorification of the decision’s correctness. This can’t help but leak connotationally into the inference that the value of person’s life is getting diminished in this context (and I do keep wondering whether you’re evil!). The explicit disclaimer doesn’t have much detail to resolve this ambiguity, it only states a sign:
I have made my position clear and given the morality interrogation more of an answer than necessary. My only response to your objection, whatever it is, is to emphasize the key point once again:
No, this isn’t a time to signal a naive morality to idealistic lesswrong members. It is a time to shut up, multiply and protect. This Wedrifid is a vampire, he has what it takes.
You can call vampire!Wedrifid whatever names you like, evil, whatever. Just don’t get in his way with the yabbering about the moral value of the enemy. The moral value has been considered. It will be very sad to lose them. Maybe he’d cry later if he was into that sort of thing. But he’s done the multiplication and there was a factor of a heck of a lot more than 2 to spare. It would be a shame if someone interfered and wedvamp had to shed another tear for them once he was done with business.
Since I’m not arguing about whether the decision is correct, rather that the disutility of having a person killed doesn’t diminish from the decision to kill them being correct, it’s confusing why the thrust of your replies is on correctness of the decision, dismemberment of arguments for its incorrectness, even the ones clearly not advanced by anyone, and glorification of the decision’s correctness. This can’t help but leak connotationally into the inference that the value of person’s life is getting diminished in this context (and I do keep wondering whether you’re evil!). The explicit disclaimer doesn’t have much detail to resolve this ambiguity, it only states a sign:
I have made my position clear and given the morality interrogation more of an answer than necessary. My only response to your objection, whatever it is, is to emphasize the key point once again:
You can call vampire!Wedrifid whatever names you like, evil, whatever. Just don’t get in his way with the yabbering about the moral value of the enemy. The moral value has been considered. It will be very sad to lose them. Maybe he’d cry later if he was into that sort of thing. But he’s done the multiplication and there was a factor of a heck of a lot more than 2 to spare. It would be a shame if someone interfered and wedvamp had to shed another tear for them once he was done with business.
Vampires are physically incapable of crying.
That’s ok. So am I. Believe me, I’ve tried. :)