While utilitarians often urge self-sacrifice, they rarely preach other-sacrifice. But given their principles, they totally should! Moller’...
prospect of exploiting others for the greater good thus terrifies us. Of course, it’s rare that harming innocents will produce much good, but it....
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Grandma is a kindly soul who has saved up tens of thousands of dollars in cash over the years. One fine day you see her stashing it away under her mattress, and come to think that with just a little nudge you could cause her to fall and most probably die. You could then take her money, which others don’t know about, and redistribute it to those more worthy, saving...
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...The problem, then, is that most people don’t seem able to accept even that they ought to aspire to such behavior, let alone engage in it. ” In other words, utilitarians don’t preach other-sacrifice, but fail to practice what they preach. They barely even preach it! Suspicious, to say the least...
Governing Least: What’s Really Wrong with Utilitarianism, by Bryan Caplan https://www.econlib.org/governing-least-whats-really-wrong-with-utilitarianism/
