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Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

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Is There a Moral Amunt of Evil Dir?

i think it's implied by the basics of utilitarianism. And what what that does is really treat good and evil as big mounds of dirt. So when a human being, you know, stubs their toe or hiccups or something like that, it's like this little speck of dirt,. But if, i, if i liked, let humanity go on long enough, and just started adding up the stubb toe amounts, eventually i would have a mound of dirt of these stubb toes that is equal to the hollo cost. Nd, i think, indicatestat there's somthing realy deeply wrong with viewing good andevil as essentially big mounds

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