Sorry Geoff, was just thinking aloud. Didn't presume I was the first one to consider it, just wanted more people to consider it, that's all.
Utilitarianism has dealt with this reductio at exhaustive length, and every day someone new thinks they're the first one to have considered it.
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No worries. Sorry to be grumpy about it.
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I believe you, but I'm still curious. Could you point me to your favorite version of how they've dealt with this?
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This is a pretty good overview of that issue, which I've assigned in my Effective Altruism class this term: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ConWhaRigRelRul …
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Does it happen as often as when Effective Altruists think they're the first and only ones to 1) think being effective is a good thing, and 2) use research literature?
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