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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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
of course in my way of looking at things reducibility to utilitarianism is a lethal own, since it means you're almost certainly the repugnant conclusion's bitch
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Replying to @chaosprime @0K_ultra and
I hate on utilitarianism 'cos it represents an attempt to reduce values, preferences, & the good life to something like numbers in a formula, when in reality values are fuzzy, preferences change, and the good life emerges from a process of discovery in a community of souls.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @chaosprime and
Can’t tell if you’re trolling again with this community of souls stuff.
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