Thread: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
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Old 07-17-2007, 12:05 PM
Cornell Fiji Cornell Fiji is offline
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Default Re: What price for friendship: $100 for you or $1000 for a friend?
I'm a utilitarian.

I think that the overall happiness that my friend will gain from 10x the money that I am passing up is significantly greater than the amount of happiness that I will gain from 1/10y of the money that my friend could gain.

I might be able to reconcile this if I was getting 9mil to his 10mil but at 1/10 there is no chance as his utility would be so much greater than the utility I am passing up.
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