I think the Utilitarian arguments you presented are quite strong, such as precommiting to certain principles being very advantageous, but surely they’re not infinitely advantageous right? A few billion is quite a lot.
To the people voting ‘disagree’, what OP said above is clearly true. Perhaps people are taking it to imply that the utilitarian course of action here is correct, but I see no such implication.
I think a better forum norm would be for someone to comment spelling out the perceived implication and why they disagree with it, and have other people upvote that.
To the people voting ‘disagree’, what OP said above is clearly true. Perhaps people are taking it to imply that the utilitarian course of action here is correct, but I see no such implication.
I think a better forum norm would be for someone to comment spelling out the perceived implication and why they disagree with it, and have other people upvote that.