Thanks for this post! This helped clarify a fuzzy intuition I had around utilitarianism, roughly: That some moral positions are obvious, (eg saving many more people >> saving few), and that utilitarianism is the only reasonable system that gets these important parts right. And that I’m uncertain about all of the messy details, but they don’t seem clear or important, so I don’t care about what the system says about those, so I should follow utilitarianism for everything important
Thanks for this post! This helped clarify a fuzzy intuition I had around utilitarianism, roughly: That some moral positions are obvious, (eg saving many more people >> saving few), and that utilitarianism is the only reasonable system that gets these important parts right. And that I’m uncertain about all of the messy details, but they don’t seem clear or important, so I don’t care about what the system says about those, so I should follow utilitarianism for everything important
I much prefer this way of framing it.