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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
Conversations with Tyler
The Common Good
You're selling out your fellow humans based on this belief in a universal good which is quite abstract right the other smart humans you know mostly don't agree with you. But if there's not this common metric between us and the aliens what you just measure you hook people up to a scale you measure they have more of it than we do let them come in. If that doesn't exist what is the common good or universal good in this setting? I don't know if that doesn’t exist but you said they're happier than we are which suggests a common metric of happiness and that was the basis on which I answered your questionIf there's no common metric I don't really
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