Peter Singer: "Everyone should give away all their excess money because there should be no reward for wisdom and no penalty for foolishness, and I'm not just lying through my teeth pretending to be a big dumb idiot."
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Replying to @Alrenous
He should be congratulated for taking utilitarianism all the way to its culminating spasm of definitive insanity.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Utilitarianism isn't hard to repair. He's doing it wrong because he's the king of virtue signalling, thus doing it wrong in purpose.
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Replying to @Alrenous
Have to disagree. Utilitarianism confuses an index of teleological accomplishment for a final criterion. The more it wriggles on the error, the worse the conceptual mess. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
... Pleasure and pain are just signals from evolutionary history that a path of behavior is endorsed by precedent, or not. To make of hedonic messaging the ultimate currency of value is madness -- i.e. already implicit wire-heading.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
... "Oh look at the thermostat in my house, when it gets the temperature into the correct range a neat little green light goes on." "You bought that expensive machine, just to get a little green light to go on?" "Don't knock the green light. It's the meaning of life, ultimately."
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Replying to @Outsideness
Naw, it's fine. Singer's world just has to be...adjusted.pic.twitter.com/uZXQWGhv1n
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