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Why do you reject negative utilitarianism?


Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? - Effective Altruism Forum

Negative utilitarianism implies that you would prefer to destroy a universe with an unbounded amount of certain positive experience, if that ...

Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian

Negative Utilitarianism (NU) is treated as a non-starter in mainstream philosophical circles, and to the best of my knowledge has never been supported by any ...

What's the best argument against negative utilitarianism? - Reddit

Negative utilitarianism (or at least the definition I use) is that we should first prioritize minimizing suffering and then maximize pleasure.

Point-by-point critique of Ord's “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian”

negative utilitarianism.” His principle prescribes that “we are to look to the worst possible outcomes in evaluating actions and institutions” ...

Why do you reject negative utilitarianism? - LessWrong

The notion that everything only has value to the extent that it reduces suffering meant that most of the things which I cared about, were ...

How would you argue that negative utilitarianism is ethically correct?

Utilitarianism is concerned with pleasure and pain/suffering. My initial reaction was to say “no,” mainly because when I had utilitarianism, it ...

What are some good arguments against utilitarianism? Surely, it just ...

How would you argue that negative utilitarianism is ethically correct? ... is called, requires we reject. A classic example of this would ...

Thoughts on Ord's “Why I'm Not a Negative Utilitarian”

Emphasis in original of 'negative' omitted. His principle prescribes that “we are to look to the worst possible outcomes in evaluating actions ...

Negative Utilitarianism FAQ

One plausible form of NPU is negative ideal preference utilitarianism (NIPU): An ideal preference is given by something you would want to achieve upon ...

Against Negative Utilitarianism - Johan E. Gustafsson

Still, one may defend the rejection of positive well-being with the ... These choices (that is, going up at each choice node), which you would make if you follow ...

Three Types of Negative Utilitarianism

This piece discusses three intuitions about the badness of suffering that can't all be true. Depending on which is rejected, the result is either pure negative ...

Negative utilitarianism - Wikipedia

Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate ...

Thoughts on negative utilitarianism - Manu Herrán

I think this is a good argument in favor of negative utilitarianism, that is, that reducing suffering is morally relevant, but increasing happiness is not ...

Full article: The world destruction argument - Taylor & Francis Online

The world destruction argument is not a reason to reject negative utilitarianism in favour of these other forms of consequentialism.

Negative utilitarianism as conceived by ChatGPT-4

When it is said that negative utilitarians will always "walk away from Omelas," it means that they would reject the happiness and well-being of the majority if ...

Antihurt (modified negative utilitarianism) | Felicifia forum

Secondly, to state that “some people are not content with the state of non-hurt” is literally a contradiction in terms as “not-content” is only possible because ...

Does Negative Utilitarianism Override Individual Preferences?

I this article, I defend negative utilitarianism (NU) against the charge that it overrides individual preferences. I suggest that the ...

Why I Reject Suffering Focused Morality

Given the difficulty of determining what a utilitarian should promote, an alternative approach described as negative utilitarianism argues that ...

Negative Utilitarianism and Justice - Socrethics

- In negative utilitarianism it is theoretically possible to override human rights, if it serves the minimization of negative total welfare. - In Rawls' Theory ...

Reply to Gustafsson's “Against Negative Utilitarianism”

... would firmly reject (see e.g. Gurney, 1887, ch. 4; Mendola, 1990; Ryder, 2001; Leighton, 2011). Indeed, I think Gustafsson's counterexample ...