sufficiently advanced utilitarianism is indistinguishable from evil
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Guess you got to factor in negative externalities of being stressed about your/your loved ones organs being harvested? Might help tip the scale to ‘no harvesting’ even in a utilitarian framework?
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unless we run some RCTs we'll never know for sure
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and, symmetrically, i could talk about strawmen etc. maybe best to put words and categories aside and realize that in 100 % of the situations that we will in practice encounter in our lives we'd probably act roughly the same
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why theorize abt it then

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Okay but "actually existing utilitarianism" usually involves being right about slavery way ahead of your time, being right about women's rights way ahead of your time, so I'm not sure this is a slam dunk
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no it doesn't one can make a solid argument that some people are only suited for slavery. that doesn't make enslaving them the right thing to do, even though giving them freedom means they will likely mess up their own lives by making bad choices
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nooo why is this not animated gif me my video back!
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