McCaskill's very project assumes that not everybody can do this even, right? So he relies on the fact that some people have stayed in Wall Street and are generating millions and billions of dollars in revenues. If they were also following the strict tenets of utilitarianism, they might never get their own Wall Street projects off the ground to begin with. They would actually, what will McCaskill did is only possible because other people have spent their entire life building financial institutions.
David and Tamler take a break from complaining about psychological studies that measure utilitarianism to complain about the moral theory itself. We talk about one of the most famous critiques of utilitarian theories from Bernard Williams. Does utilitarianism annihilate our integrity--our unity--as people? Would trying to maximize well-being fracture our identities, and swallow up our projects, motivations, and moral convictions--the same convictions that make utilitarianism seem appealing in the first place? Is it ultimately self-defeating as a moral theory?
Plus, we talk about the adventures of Tamler's based step-mom Christina Hoff Sommers' at Lewis and Clark law school. Will David stay woke?
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