Lockdown: A Trolley Problem
Brain in a Vat
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Utilitarianism and COVID
Short-term utilitarian say, all I care about are the immediate consequences of my actions. But a long-term utilitarian says, what I care about is the consequences of those consequences,. And just how far into the future you look is a perpetual problem for utilitarianism. Do you look at your in the future? Do you look 10, 100, 1000, a million? Now, how far ahead do you look?
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