
Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is That Really a Descriptive Defense of Utilitarianism?
I think that there is also just descriptively a psychological feature that prevents us from feeling good about this situation. It's very hard to represent psychologically the accrued pleasure of everybody else it's very easy to see one-on-one fuck my happiness is contingent upon this guy's torture no I don't want that. But because it's hard to then multiply all of the happiness you know it's veryHard to represent what that even means that a million people are happy we just our mind has trouble going there in order to justify the situationYeah although I think that's why she takes so much time to really do that to really express the joy and again like have us fill in the details of what
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