This post is a deep dive that explores this perspective.
I feel very torn regarding these points because I believe they are fundamentally at odds with my beliefs as a utilitarian. I believe that the vast majority of most agent’s value can be instrumental and we probably should primarily, on a bird’s eye view, view our happiness as primarily useful toward serving to better the world.
Of course, we are moral patients too, but our consideration is dwarfed by our power.
Yeah. Though for a utilitarian it could still be instrumentally good to believe the points in this post, at least on an emotional level. But lying to yourself is plausibly a bad norm for other reasons, and in any case, this type of reasoning is the exact thing the post is arguing against.
https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​AjxqsDmhGiW9g8ju6/​​effective-altruism-in-the-garden-of-ends
This post is a deep dive that explores this perspective.
I feel very torn regarding these points because I believe they are fundamentally at odds with my beliefs as a utilitarian. I believe that the vast majority of most agent’s value can be instrumental and we probably should primarily, on a bird’s eye view, view our happiness as primarily useful toward serving to better the world.
Of course, we are moral patients too, but our consideration is dwarfed by our power.
Yeah. Though for a utilitarian it could still be instrumentally good to believe the points in this post, at least on an emotional level. But lying to yourself is plausibly a bad norm for other reasons, and in any case, this type of reasoning is the exact thing the post is arguing against.