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Reviewing Trent's ABORTION Debate with Destiny on Whatever (Trent Horn) | Ep. 419

Pints With Aquinas

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The Repugnant Conclusion

If I said an arbitrary standard, say the greatest good for the greatest number for this class of humans or something, then I can say we've made moral progress. Well, and then you could say, well, if it's arbitrary, why should one follow it? Or you could say this is the correct standard. So that's called the repugnant conclusion. Utilitarianism runs into a lot of problems like these because its central focus is about this kind of principle rather than persons and they're ultimate good. A Christian worldview better explains that, you know, goddess are ultimate good, that we do have this desire for infinite happiness. It can't be satisfied in this life. But

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