RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 20, 2021 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2021 at 5:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Plenty of utilitarian goods allow or are explicitly produced by some harm. If it were true that slavery benefited a majority, or that slavery benefitted a majority of the enslaved, it would satisfy the criteria of utilitarianism by definition.
There's really no question of whether or not it can be - it has been. We don't drag slavery because it fails to produce the greatest happiness for the largest number - but the manner in which it attempts to achieve it. Same reason we might drag a policy aimed at protecting future children even though we agree that we have such an obligation, for the manner in which it seeks to achieve that.
There's really no question of whether or not it can be - it has been. We don't drag slavery because it fails to produce the greatest happiness for the largest number - but the manner in which it attempts to achieve it. Same reason we might drag a policy aimed at protecting future children even though we agree that we have such an obligation, for the manner in which it seeks to achieve that.
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