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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Repugnant Conclusion

If you aggregate enough lives that are better than nothing, they will eventually outweigh a world where there are billions of perfectly happy people. Parfett: It does seem repugnant to say that sheer numbers makes the ladder more valuable. But if we're reducing quality of life of those who had fantastic lives, then you're doing something bad. We have no responsibility to bring in another happy life and so it takes us down the route to the repugnant conclusion.

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