Like, one of them wrote an essay that, if you could torture someone for 50 years, and that would make nobody ever have dust in their eyes again, you should torture the guy, because if you quantify the suffering of the guy, it’s still less than the amount of suffering every subsequent person will feel from having dust in their eyes.
“It’s fine for billionaires like me to grind workers into dust today because my actions will one day lead mankind to a glorious future where we upload our brains into robots or something and you can have unlimited hair plugs”
Basically, yeah. There’s a reason that dictator types and wannabe dictator types love utilitarianism so much. They can use it to justify literally anything.
Basically, yeah. There’s a reason that dictator types and wannabe dictator types love utilitarianism so much. They can use it to justify literally anything.