@jenphalian @LionessElise sure! so utilitarianism, "the greatest good for the greatest number", would to many readings dictate that the…
@jenphalian @LionessElise you should read the Le Guin, it's just a short story so no big investment and it's terribly influential
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@jenphalian@LionessElise if partly because it seems to be subject to the most egregious misreadingsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime@jenphalian I agree, and would be interested to hear your thoughts on it. -
@LionessElise@jenphalian welp my basic thoughts are that it's a solid reduction to absurdity argument against utilitarianism and pretty… -
@LionessElise@jenphalian …well demonstrates that a statistical outcomes approach to ethics needs at the very least some complexity and… -
@LionessElise@jenphalian …nuance to be other than a thoroughly rotten foundation. -
@LionessElise@jenphalian on the more general social critique level i gotta respond to the bizarre misreading (by my lights anyway) of it… -
@LionessElise@jenphalian …where it's a feel-good piece for twee liberals because we all fantasize that *we* would have such moral fiber… -
@LionessElise@jenphalian …as to be one of the ones who walks away. which posits Le Guin as a moral coward where she's the exact opposite. -
@LionessElise@jenphalian the point is that society isn't founded on and maintained by the abject suffering of one child, it's founded on… - 3 more replies
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