0G78: Omelas and Distributive Justice
Philosophers In Space
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How to Maximize the Outcome of Suffering
I think it depends on what your choices are like obviously if we're just speculating and kind of using general experience to say because I don't know what the rules of this world are. What can you really be happy with the psychological consequences of the suffering of this one person yeah that is a good question maybe we can get to that after dark as a sort of psychological question butYeah so what you were saying there I think is great because you're you know this is a question of distributive justice or alternatively like population ethics depending on whether you're talking about what is the right thing to do versuswhat would be the better outcomes people think that those two things can actually come apart, he says
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