Whose Utilitarianism? | Slate Star Codex
[Trigger warning: attempt to ground morality] God help me, I’m starting to have doubts about utilitarianism. Whose Superstructure? The first doubt is something like this. Utilitarianism requi…
[Trigger warning: attempt to ground morality] God help me, I’m starting to have doubts about utilitarianism. Whose Superstructure? The first doubt is something like this. Utilitarianism requires a complicated superstructure – a set of meta-rules about how to determine utilitarian rules. You need to figure out which of people’s many conflicting types of desires are their true “preferences”, make some rules on how we’re going to aggregate utilities, come up with tricks to avoid the Repugnant Conclusion and Pascal’s Mugging, et cetera. I have never been too bothered by this in a practical…
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