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If a family has ten kids, is that family worth more than 3x a family with just one child? That's what gets to me about utilitarian philosophy. By adding more p
by swagasaurus-rex 3y ago
If a family has ten kids, is that family worth more than 3x a family with just one child?
That's what gets to me about utilitarian philosophy. By adding more people, something humans are good at, you're increasing the number of people that deserve moral consideration.
The idea that every life is sacred leads to some trolley-problem level of moralizing
- hulitu 3y ago> The idea that every life is sacred leads to some trolley-problem level of moralizing "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth" "Can we take your liver now" ?
- newyankee 3y agoAlso the misplaced notion that all religious ideologies are same. Religions followed strictly promote procreation but they do not provide a solution for hunger, using limited resources of the world etc. I can also argue as an Indian that authoritarian Chinese growth over last 4 decades did more to remove people from poverty and increase quality of life (in the process also saving many lives, whatever the cost - 15k Tiananmen deaths etc.) than democratic India where till recently nothing seemed to get done due to corruption, mismanagement and people fighting over limited resources.