Yeah I’m surprised by this as well. Both classical utilitarianism (in the extreme version, “everything that is not morally obligatory is forbidden”) and longtermism just seem to have many lower degrees of freedom than other commonly espoused ethical systems, so it would naively be surprising if these worldviews can justify a broader range of actions than close alternatives.
Yeah I’m surprised by this as well. Both classical utilitarianism (in the extreme version, “everything that is not morally obligatory is forbidden”) and longtermism just seem to have many lower degrees of freedom than other commonly espoused ethical systems, so it would naively be surprising if these worldviews can justify a broader range of actions than close alternatives.