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It makes sense only if you’re already a convinced utilitarian. Not all of us are.
by senderista 7y ago
It makes sense only if you’re already a convinced utilitarian. Not all of us are.
- retsibsi 7y agoIt's consequentialist reasoning, not necessarily utilitarian. And you don't have to be a thoroughgoing consequentialist to agree that in a world full of preventable misery, it's best to focus on actually preventing it, rather than on keeping your own hands as clean as possible. (And realistically we're talking about working for an oil company or a casino or something, not being a Nazi prison guard.)
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoMaybe the adherents you mentioned are? I'm missing the requirement that the advice apply to "all of us".