what if humans are so miserable just because they're the first local instances of systems inexorably driven by survival-to-replication to get smart enough to figure out that survival-to-replication is ultimately doomed
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Nietzsche: "whatever you like! pick something that seems cool!" humans: "but but how can we justify anything without reference to eternity" Nietzsche: "ayy fuck me"
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
"just do what feels good yo"-utilitarianism
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nah mang at's hedonism, utilitarianism is do what feels the most good for the most people
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
ahh so more like a masturbation party
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just when you thought definitions of utilitarianism couldn't get any more concise without sacrificing accuracy
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
why do y'alls hate on utilitarians so much? They are a harmless math nerd moral theory
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if you let harmless math nerds hang around having moral theories long enough eventually somebody tries to implement one of them
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
honestly, I strongly doubt that any serious mischief ~started~ with heady math nerd theories, and I doubt that there ever was a serious utilitarian villain (they seem a bit too easy to imagine and a bit hard to come by)
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well, things starting is fake anyway any villain who talked about the greater good was some extent of utilitarian villain though
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
That extends the definition of "utilitarian" wide enough to cover not only all of consequentialism but also a solid chunk of deontology, and also most of the creeping metastatic cancer that is "care" ethics
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if the greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number shoe fits
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