“A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic.” @sapinker
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Exactly. Love isn't an ethical principle or a moral system at all. But saying that human life has equal value isn't an ethical principle, either. It's mindless sentimentalism.
Utilitarianism is the _exact_ opposite of mindless sentimentalism.
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