(October 7, 2018 at 6:03 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I don’t think that being moral is about making the most people happy. It also seems that we appeal to morality, even when it makes a large group of people unhappy. What do you think about the number of people here, who seem to want to make Christians unhappy..., are they immoral?Hurting people's fee fees is a generally bad thing™..that doesn't mean we won't do it, lol.
In any case, and as poly already said...there are many different important distinctions between what may, for example..inconvenience you today, that will produce a greater, more consequential, or more uniform well being. It would be a mistake to think that utilitarian consequentialism with a hedonistic basis is about chasing whatever feels good now, and running away from whatever doesn't. While the position has many problems, the moral status of bruising some nitwits fragile ego isn't one of them.
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