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Gates' main straw man is one William Godwin, who in 1793 argued that if you can rescue either your mother or Archbishop Fenelon from a burning house, "you go for the Archbishop, since he has the greater social contribution to make."
The heart of my argument, though, is that none of these alternative mechanisms "carr[ies] the promise of avoiding [the] spillover problem altogether" (in Godwin's and Abelson's words).
Reno (released after Godwin and Abelson's letter was written) rejected such a distinction--whether rightly or wrongly--in the closely related context of a vagueness analysis.
5. As to the factual points Godwin and Abelson raise, I refer the reader to my response to the letter from Jay Friedland of SurfWatch.
Of course, Gates comically stacks the deck with the Godwin example, since Godwin asks that we rescue the cleric, not in the name of truth but in the name of some sort of obnoxious aristocratic utilitarianism.