1/n I’m confused by Derek Parfit’s ‘Repugnant Conclusion’. Can anyone help me understand the right way to think about this?
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3/n Leaving aside how you define happiness, isn’t this just illogical (like, philosophy is considering situations the laws of human nature don’t allow us to explore)?
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4/n Seems like theorizing about a type of evolution that only selected for broken organisms - just not going to happen pragmatically
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5/n Related to an issue I don’t understand in stat physics where people talk about the full state space but not trajectories that could just be totally inaccessible given some starting point
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No, that's the conclusion, not the argument. The argument goes like this: - Start with a population of happy people on Earth. - It would be no worse, overall if there also happened to be a moon colony with sightly less happy people. (Cont)
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- You could also make things better, overall, by making the happiness equal in both places *and* raising the average happiness slightly at the same time. - And it would be no worse if the two population were just considered as one population. (Cont)
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One assumption he is testing is that utilitarianism should be one of our principles when deciding about which policies to enact that will affect future people. If we are utilitarians, then the highest sum of happiness is the goal. You can reject utilitarianism of course.
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The original point of the RP is to show that, in population ethics, a bunch of reasonable assumptions are contradictory and that the least painful way is to embrace the RP https://www.jstor.org/stable/20532700 Someone who is a utilitarian indeed should embrace it
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A take: Number of people as height, happiness is width, then total happiness of a future society is the area, individual happiness has a limit, so if you want to maximize absolute total happiness you come to the conclusion that your only option is to increase number to infinity.
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