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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments
Modern Wisdom
The Utilitarian Position of Minimizing Suffering
Most people think ethics is something about minimizing suffering or maximizing pleasure. This is the utilitarian position, at least one version of it,. The crude utilitarian so there's a wonderful thought experiment from roger crisp which comes from john stuart mill's utilitarianism. A doctor has two options when he needs to treat a patient in dire need. He can choose between pills that have a 99 point nine percent chance of failure and killing them painlessly and and agonizingly.
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