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Is that kind of depends on the expected value in each situation. I think you can go either way depending on the magnitude of the benefit and expense. Also, the

Is that kind of depends on the expected value in each situation. I think you can go either way depending on the magnitude of the benefit and expense. Also, there's the obvious slippery slope into utilitarianism and things like killing one person to save 10 with their organs.

uhmpire 2y ago
Blanket outlawing of utilitarianism is its own slippery slope. Just because some long dead philosophers, mostly affluent people who avoided real work and utilitarian choice, had time to sit and cobble together some syntax and semantics doesn’t mean it’s literally possible to live by their high minded babble And to the moral point; today the majority rely on as little labor as possible paid as little as possible to make their food and clothes; consuming the few willing to work for little for the benefit of the many is daily life for richer countries. Pretending our society is beyond such because our historical philosophy says it is pretentious wank