Utilitarianism

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i think that a short term future where people truly flourish, i would say, is actually preferable to a long-term future where people are basically miserable. That's the fundamental problem with utilitarianism. You can always win just by adding more people to the gameand i think that's wrong. So i haven't yo, i babbled on about it just now, but i haven't really put a lot of thought into this.

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