I disagree but think I know what you’re getting at and am sympathetic. I made the following to try to illustrate and might add it in to the post if it seems clarifying
I made it on a whim just now without thinking too hard so don’t necessarily consider the graphical representation on as solid footing as the stuff in the post
I take it “any bad can be offset by a sufficient good” is what you are thinking of as being in the yellow circle implications. And my view is that it is actually red circle. It might actually be how I would define utilitarianism, rather than your UC.
What I am still really curious about is your motivation. Why do you even want to call yourself a utilitarian or an effective altruist or something? If you are so committed to the idea that some bads cannot be offset, then why don’t you just want to call yourself a deontologist? I come to EA precisely to find a place where I can do moral reasoning and have moral conversations with other spreadsheet people, without running into this “some bads cannot be offset” stuff.
I disagree but think I know what you’re getting at and am sympathetic. I made the following to try to illustrate and might add it in to the post if it seems clarifying
I made it on a whim just now without thinking too hard so don’t necessarily consider the graphical representation on as solid footing as the stuff in the post
I take it “any bad can be offset by a sufficient good” is what you are thinking of as being in the yellow circle implications. And my view is that it is actually red circle. It might actually be how I would define utilitarianism, rather than your UC.
What I am still really curious about is your motivation. Why do you even want to call yourself a utilitarian or an effective altruist or something? If you are so committed to the idea that some bads cannot be offset, then why don’t you just want to call yourself a deontologist? I come to EA precisely to find a place where I can do moral reasoning and have moral conversations with other spreadsheet people, without running into this “some bads cannot be offset” stuff.