"The negative utilitarian is usually the honorable one.  Never wanted to hurt anyone at all.  That's what makes them such tragic villains."

"Not really how I thought of myself, before I came to Golarion, but there you go."

"...I continue to think that you did not understand at all the point about why you go 'let's die in a fire together' to conditional Zon-Kuthon who will build Xovaikain unless you pay him 5 gold pieces.  It's not about that part of reality being unpretty, it's about that counterfactual branch being one that you didn't want to end up in so you don't give agents retroactive incentives to create it.  There's an entire philosophy of decision theory which says that the very act of making a decision is annihilating all the branches of reality where you made different decisions -"

"You know, maybe let's just pick that up again at INT 29."

"The negative utilitarian is usually the honorable one.  Never wanted to hurt anyone at all.  That's what makes them such tragic villains."

"Not really how I thought of myself, before I came to Golarion, but there you go."

"...I continue to think that you did not understand at all the point about why you go 'let's die in a fire together' to conditional Zon-Kuthon who will build Xovaikain unless you pay him 5 gold pieces.  It's not about that part of reality being unpretty, it's about that counterfactual branch being one that you didn't want to end up in so you don't give agents retroactive incentives to create it.  There's an entire philosophy of decision theory which says that the very act of making a decision is annihilating all the branches of logical possibility where you made different decisions -"

"You know, maybe let's just pick that up again at INT 29."

"The negative utilitarian is usually the honorable one.  Never wanted to hurt anyone at all.  That's what makes them such tragic villains."

"Not really how I thought of myself, before I came to Golarion, but there you go."

"...I continue to think that you did not understand at all the point about why you go 'let's die in a fire together' to conditional Zon-Kuthon who will build Xovaikain unless you pay him 5 gold pieces.  It's not about that part of reality being unpretty, it's about that counterfactual branch being one that you didn't want to end up in so you don't give agents retroactive incentives to create it.  There's an entire philosophy of decision theory which says that the very act of making a decision is annihilating all the branches of logical possibility where you made different decisions, and that the principle of rational choice is to choose so as to annihilate all realities except the one where you get the best outcome -"

"You know, maybe let's just pick that up again at INT 29."

"The negative utilitarian is usually the honorable one.  Never wanted to hurt anyone at all.  That's what makes them such tragic villains."

"Not really how I thought of myself, before I came to Golarion, but there you go."

"...I continue to think that you did not understand at all the point about why you go 'let's die in a fire together' to conditional Zon-Kuthon who will build Xovaikain unless you pay him 5 gold pieces.  It's not about that part of reality being unpretty, it's about that counterfactual branch being one that you didn't want to end up in so you don't give agents retroactive incentives to create it.  There's an entire philosophy of decision theory which says that the very act of making a decision is annihilating all the branches of logical possibility where you made different decisions, and that the principle of rational choice is to choose so as to unmake all realities except the one where you get the best outcome -"

"You know, maybe let's just pick that up again at INT 29."