Utilitarianism Ethics Debate
Comments debate utilitarianism, its variants like rule and negative utilitarianism, and effective altruism, often contrasting it with deontology and highlighting ethical dilemmas like organ harvesting or utility monsters.
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That's a very naive view of utilitarianism.See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_utilitarianism
Sorry, it is not a "fine" concept.It is just utilitarianism with modern marketing and pure utilitarianism has problems.See one example below where utilitarianism's suggestion goes against what almost everyone considers ethical:You can take 10 healthy organs from one person without any social connections and use the organs to save 10 terminal patients who would otherwise die.EA effectively sanctions robbing a million people to help a million people + 1
You'll just end up playing whack-a-mole, only the moles getting whacked will be real people being treated unjustly. This is why I'm a deontologist. The pursuit of maximal utility is a fine thing, but people tend to vastly overestimate their powers of foresight and where that overestimation causes human suffering it's better avoided altogether. We already have comparative examples of systems that seem to work vastly better than our without being so radically different as to be beyo
It's look like you follows utilitarian philosophy[1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
this is basically utilitarianism. i.e. this action will benefit me, but will create a disproportionate amount of suffering for others, thus increasing net suffering.
EA doesn't do that - it's a much smaller concept than utilitarianism. (Which also wouldn't always support that conclusion.)
Intention matters. Your argument is purely utilitarian.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
From a utilitarian perspective, probably not.
Utilitarian/consequentialist stuff needs to stop. Please.
what about those practicing utilitarian ethics?