Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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The Arguments for Utilitarianism
When you look at scientific theories, how do you decide whether they're god or not? Well, significant in partby the predictions that they and we can do that to some extent with moral theories as well. And so when you look at bentham and mill, they were extremely progressive. They campaigned and argued for women's right to vote and the importance of women a good education. In fact, some of bentham's writings on the topic were so controversial that they weren't even published 200 years later. Ithink sir bentham thought that homosexuality was fine, yet they should be deteanized? Absolutely yes. At the time. Eie lesily the only person who thought this
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