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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
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The Paradox of Partiality in the Moral Universe
I don't understand why you're seeing this paradox is relating to partiality I mean it's just as true if we completely impartial about universal good right? We'll take the Bernard Williams question which I think you've written about. Let's say that aliens are coming to the Earth and they may do away with us and we may have reason to believe they could be happier here on Earth than what we can do with Earth. So you would sign up to fight with the aliens. But does the question show not only that it's some unusual paradox in a corner of the moral universe but that in all our choices that assessments of utility are within some framework that is pre-assuming a certain amount of
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