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TBH, as a Chinese expat, all these utilitarian arguments give me Deja Vu of how the Chinese government defended GFW.
by zachguo 7y ago
TBH, as a Chinese expat, all these utilitarian arguments give me Deja Vu of how the Chinese government defended GFW.
- wsinks 7y agoCan you elaborate on this? I don't know about how they defended the Great Firewall (had to look up that acronym) And I was thinking about the utilitarian argument for the world... that argument sides with China on the surface. From Webster, "Utiliatarianism" is the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number. China is the largest country by population in the world. A very quick argument would be 'We have the most people, so anything that's good for our people is good for the world." That thinking justifies ghettos - the minority would upset the majority, and the most pleasure for the majority is what utilitarianism is. That has me worried - it's a simple argument that is wrong on deeper inspection. What do you think as a Chinese expat? What was CCP's argument for the Great Firewall? Population reference: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-by-percentage-of-world-population.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-by-percentage-...
- tdb7893 7y agoIs there anything specific you are worried about? With arguments context matters a lot and hearing similar arguments in two different places isn't really surprising.