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Torture vs. Dust Specks

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7blogs citing

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First cited8 Jan 2021
Latest citation20 Mar 2026
Words blogs link it with5
External links0
Lengthnot read yet
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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • 3↑↑↑31 blog
  • argued1 blog
  • dust specks1 blog
  • minor inconveniences of the many over the great pains of a chosen few1 blog
  • person being tortured over saving the many people suffering dustspecks1 blog

Cited by 7 blogs in 8 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
benthams.substack.com1 post
Infinite Dust Specks Are Worse Than One Torture

linked as “argued”

Read at benthams.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
20 Mar 2026
unstableontology.com1 post
The Obliqueness Thesis

linked as “Torture is preferable to Dust Specks”

Read at unstableontology.com (opens in a new tab)
19 Sept 2024
brokensandals.net1 post
Review of Utilitarianism: For & Against

linked as ““Torture vs. Dust Specks””

Read at brokensandals.net (opens in a new tab)
30 Sept 2023
voidgoddess.org1 post
Of Love in the Age of Afterglow

linked as “minor inconveniences of the many over the great pains of a chosen few”

Read at voidgoddess.org (opens in a new tab)
22 Sept 2023
Applied Divinity Studies2 posts
Statistical Theodicy

linked as “dust specks”

Read at applieddivinitystudies.com (opens in a new tab)
8 May 2022
1 other post
Progress Studies Exegesis

linked as “some number of nearly imperceptible harms can somehow add up to being worse than intense torture”

Read at applieddivinitystudies.com (opens in a new tab)
30 Nov 2021
thinkingmuchbetter.com1 post
Consequentialism: A Defense/Manifesto

linked as “person being tortured over saving the many people suffering dustspecks”

Read at thinkingmuchbetter.com (opens in a new tab)
10 Mar 2022
zackmdavis.net1 post
Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception

linked as “3↑↑↑3”

Read at zackmdavis.net (opens in a new tab)
8 Jan 2021

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