A horrific piece. How can this person possibly be a professor of philosophy? The examples are simply absurd. As many other commenters have pointed out, he si

A horrific piece. How can this person possibly be a professor of philosophy? The examples are simply absurd. As many other commenters have pointed out, he simply doesn’t evaluate them reasonably. You can certainly make the case that this is a real problem with utilitarianism - i.e. that there is no good function for evaluating scenarios. But that’s not what the author s arguing. He is arguing that utilitarianism leads to repugnant trade-offs. He’s not even wrong. He just doesn’t seem to have thought deeply about it at all.