Comments on: The Cactus Crossing Conundrum https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/08/the-poison-cactus-vampire-ward-problem/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: IstenAldja https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/08/the-poison-cactus-vampire-ward-problem/#comment-57501 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:10:05 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=1905#comment-57501 It is not “democratic” at all for two-thirds to assert their own interests exclusively, completely ignoring the interests of the remaining one-third. It is what John Stuart Mill called “the tyranny of the majority.”

]]> By: Leslie Large https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/08/the-poison-cactus-vampire-ward-problem/#comment-56984 Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:47:20 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=1905#comment-56984 Greetings Mister!
If we leave them to themselves/alone, that option is left out of the decisions and/or the decision tree.
I’d be interested to see how the math works out.
Capitalist 0% – Democratic 100% ?

]]> By: Edmund Nelson https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/08/the-poison-cactus-vampire-ward-problem/#comment-56008 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:15:46 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=1905#comment-56008 I find it really interesting how the Captialist trade solution and the Utilitarian solution are *identical* except for an extra transfer.

There’s something to that, which is probably just as simple as “economic trade happens on utilitarian grounds”

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