
#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
Within Reason
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Do You Have a Pleasurable Experience?
I know several people who've donated a kidney to a complete stranger because they accepted that they can live quite adequately with one kidney. There are people on waiting lists for getting a kidney who have very poor quality of life on dialysis who may die before they ever get to the point of having a kidney. They didn't derive any pleasure from the knowledge that it helps someone in that manner I certainly don't think pleasure that they were helping anyone was the motivation for doing what they did. The reason someone wants to be a poet is because of the pleasure they derive from being a poet and so diminishing one type of pleasure or one means of pleasure to increase your ability to write good poetry must outweigh the
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