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Is It Reductive to Say, Yes, Things Are Complicated Sometimes?
In the investigations of these issues, the temptation is to throw up your hands and go like, i don't know, it's complicated. But what i like doing is wrestling with it and trying to get as close as you can to an answer that feels satisfactory. In this case, there are people who will say, what can't be just about the numbers for these reasons? There will other people who say, like kant would say, like one of kant's formulations of the categorical imperative is you should treat people as an end in themselves, not a means to an end. And if you don't think that it's ok for you to do something, even if a utilitarian