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#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define What Is Good & Bad?
Modern Wisdom
How to Maximize Pleasure
From a consequentialist, just the outcome does the end justify the means? I suppose in that form, yes. Well, so the difficult thing to say is like intuitively when faced with the option before we know what's actually going to happen and you've got the two medicines in front of you,. You'd probably advise the doctor to say option B. That's cause. And that seems justifiable, right? It seems like that should be the case, but the weird conclusion is that if he uses option B and it works and the patients restore to 85% health, whether or not the doctor did the right thing completely depends on what would have happened if he'd administered drug A.
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