Using this framework, the suffering captured by a DLES would tentatively correspond to the Excruciating category,[6] described as follows
Cynthia Schuck-Paim from WFI said “Examples [of excruciating pain] would include severe burning in large areas of the body, dismemberment, or extreme torture”.
Taking triage seriously (and assuming widespread sympathy for intense suffering) means, in my opinion, that any government’s top health priority should be to bring the DLES burden down as much as possible.
Would you still believe this under expectational total hedonistic utilitarianism?
Would you still believe this under expectational total hedonistic utilitarianism?
Someone who is fully bought into expectational total hedonistic utilitarianism and nothing else would probably not agree with that conclusion, no. (I don’t endorse such a form of utilitarianism. My views align much more closely to something like xNU+.)
I do, however, hope that people across the ethical spectrum can acknowledge that we could be doing much more to relieve extreme suffering without necessarily making significant compromises elsewhere. We already managed to provide universal access to anesthesia (at least in developed countries), so we could do much more for those who are still being left behind at a small fraction of the cost.
Thanks for the post, Alfredo.
Cynthia Schuck-Paim from WFI said “Examples [of excruciating pain] would include severe burning in large areas of the body, dismemberment, or extreme torture”.
Would you still believe this under expectational total hedonistic utilitarianism?
Thanks, Vasco!
Someone who is fully bought into expectational total hedonistic utilitarianism and nothing else would probably not agree with that conclusion, no. (I don’t endorse such a form of utilitarianism. My views align much more closely to something like xNU+.)
I do, however, hope that people across the ethical spectrum can acknowledge that we could be doing much more to relieve extreme suffering without necessarily making significant compromises elsewhere. We already managed to provide universal access to anesthesia (at least in developed countries), so we could do much more for those who are still being left behind at a small fraction of the cost.