RE: Anti-Utilitarianism
March 5, 2011 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2011 at 9:26 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Intriguing response Void. May I ask why you choose to evaluate the desires rather than the suffering involved?
Also, when is the aggregation relevant to desirism, if ever? I, like you, would choose the pinpricks as preferable to the rapes regardless of how many pinpricks and how little rapes.
Although, we have different reasons. Yours seems to be to do with what a moral person would do and a moral person is someone who tends to promote more desires that promote more other desires and thwart more desires that thwart more other desires (have I got that right?). So it seems to have some virtue ethics in there because it is also about 'what a moral person would do'. Would you agree with that?
The reason I choose the pinpricks over the rapes regardless of the quantity on either side is simply because all pinpricks are only pinpricks to all that suffer from them (even if it was trillions of people or more), and the experience of being raped (which is obviously significantly worse) is much worse to all who suffer from it even if it's only one person.
Also, when is the aggregation relevant to desirism, if ever? I, like you, would choose the pinpricks as preferable to the rapes regardless of how many pinpricks and how little rapes.
Although, we have different reasons. Yours seems to be to do with what a moral person would do and a moral person is someone who tends to promote more desires that promote more other desires and thwart more desires that thwart more other desires (have I got that right?). So it seems to have some virtue ethics in there because it is also about 'what a moral person would do'. Would you agree with that?
The reason I choose the pinpricks over the rapes regardless of the quantity on either side is simply because all pinpricks are only pinpricks to all that suffer from them (even if it was trillions of people or more), and the experience of being raped (which is obviously significantly worse) is much worse to all who suffer from it even if it's only one person.
