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The Right to Sex | Raja Halwani

Brain in a Vat

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The Utilitarian Route to Sex

Raja: I think if you adopt the rights framework, then the wrong bad distinction is very important. But because I'm a utilitarian, I don't want to adopt that framework. Raja: The person who has multiple sexual particles throughout their life doesn't necessarily need to be an Adonis or exceptionally good lover. It does seem like there's a whole lot of net pleasure lost in the celibate case. If we are going to go about the utilitarian rule and the act utilitarian rule, not the rule utilitarian rule, you're right.

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