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If you put the cost of imminent certain death of one person as infinite, then given the choice between:
One person dies right now, everyone else survives and lives a full life.
And
In one hour, everyone in the world dies with a 99.9999% chance.
You would pick the latter. That's the issue I see with placing an infinite cost on imminent death.
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If you put the cost of imminent certain death of one person as infinite, then given the choice between:
One person dies right now, everyone else survives and lives a full life.
And
In one hour, everyone in the world dies with a 99.9999% chance.
You would pick the latter. That's the issue I see with placing an infinite cost on imminent death.