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This is close to utilitarian ethics. The problem is that, taken to the extreme, it is easy to yield obviously wrong moral decisions. For example, if we define
by okaram 5y ago
This is close to utilitarian ethics. The problem is that, taken to the extreme, it is easy to yield obviously wrong moral decisions.
For example, if we define 'survive as long as possible' as having 1+ humans alive, we might decide we should kill 1/2 of the population (Thanos did nothing wrong).
- dTal 5y agoBut that's not obviously wrong, if the alternative really is human extinction with 100% probability. The true difficulty with utilitarianism is properly defining the metric to be optimized.