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Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

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What's Wrong With Killing All Preditors?

i find it very amusing to imagine a rabbit wondering if the rabbit should never be born. And i think this goes to some of the failures of utilitarianism, and that to deal with with sort of arriving at repugnant conclusions. It's often the case that utilitarians need to import non utilitarian ethics,. Non utilitarian ethics can have things like qualitative differences or natural order.

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