Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Those Are Your Best Arguments for Utilitarianism
Most non utilitarian views require there to be like, personhood as a fundamental moral concept. If liing to look at it, concept is illusory. You have to reject those moral views. And then there's various forms of conflict with intuitions. A third is that doesn't care about equality is an intrinsic value at all. Doesn't care about many other things as intrinsi i mean, doesn't careAbout the environment as an intruatic value and so on. It's agen a very demanding moral view, and that's quite strictly in disagreement with common sense. I think you can come up with all sorts of elaborate thought experiments, like what if you can kill one
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