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No you can apply an infinite negative value/infinite cost and use that to bootstrap deontological ethics. You would do this in a mathematical system where only
by qualudeheart 5y ago
No you can apply an infinite negative value/infinite cost and use that to bootstrap deontological ethics.
You would do this in a mathematical system where only a single infinity exists since otherwise you might get some weird utilitarian algebra with infinities which would ruin the simplicity of deontology.
- atweiden 5y agoBut anything less than an infinite tax on animal slaughter would be akin to outright tolerating extreme suffering of a living thing so long as someone is willing to pay for it. I can’t see any difference between an infinite tax and just banning animal slaughter.