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Is There a Complex Blend of Suffering and Utilitarianism?
Trent: I believe that many people reach an incorrect belief about God through cognitive errors, incorrect inferences. Alex: In practice, I guess I was like in practice, I'm a utilitarian and that's all you need to know to understand the kind of moral decisions that I would make. Trent: If you could illustrate what the world would have to look like for you for theodices thereof to not be personally convincing, even though they could be possible, you would find it improbable. For Alex, there has been a time in your life before now where you've been a, a motivist before considering yourself utilitarian. He says he still thinks suffering is bad, but by that now