Meldrik@lemmy.wtfM to WTF@lemmy.wtf · 4 months agoThat's great. That's great.lemmy.wtfimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1990arrow-down125
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minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up249·edit-24 months ago“I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn’t that bad?”
minus-squarecasmael@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up56·4 months agoYeah so it’s not as scary as people think
minus-squarenorimee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·4 months ago“I shot 1/4 million people in the head…”
minus-squareOutlierBluelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoExcept there wasn’t even a house left. There was a smoking patch of ground that a different guy moved to.
minus-squareorcrist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoThis is the classic argument against act utilitarianism. It’s textbook ethics. Literally, every intro ethics textbook covers it.
“I shot a guy in the head, but then a different guy moved into the house where he lived, so it wasn’t that bad?”
That’s great. That’s great.
Yeah so it’s not as scary as people think
“I shot 1/4 million people in the head…”
But none of them were deputies!
Except there wasn’t even a house left. There was a smoking patch of ground that a different guy moved to.
This is the classic argument against act utilitarianism. It’s textbook ethics. Literally, every intro ethics textbook covers it.