"Greatest happiness for the greatest number" has to be the funniest conception for morality, because if you look at basically anyone, they very rarely even try to maximize their own happiness.
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lmao these utilitarian clowns can't even explain why people watch sad movies, what kind of overarching theory of everything is this?
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Catharsis.
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Why be alone with our sadness? We can watch imaginary people suffer through similar things.
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Think more generally. Masochism. Why having hot pepper sauce? It's just pain. Joy through suffering.
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@SamHarrisOrg will build a supercomputer to maximise happinesss across all people across all time in order to tell you what to do every minute of every day...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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*laughs in Brave New World*
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Aristotle, among many other aesthetic theorists, tries to explain exactly that. Noel Carroll, e.g., does it for horror movies. Utilitarianism has lots of problems, but this ain’t it, chief.
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I think of utility as how close you are to a fully fulfilled life, and that requires more than just pleasure.
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