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Holocaust Responsibility | Spencer Case

Brain in a Vat

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The Crutus Form Utilitarianism

utilitarianism takes a number of different approaches to solving problems like this, knowledge gap problems. One option is to say that your action is right just in case you took into account the kind of facts that a reasonable man in your position should have known. And it's very alarming and disturbing to me to think about the hypothetical. Would I pass the do I take in order from Hitler test and put in exactly the same circumstances with exactly the same kind of indoctrination? How many of my friends and family would pass that test?

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