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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,49 @@ 1 +==Utilitarianism FW== 2 + 3 + 4 +====The standard is maximizing utility. ==== 5 + 6 + 7 +====First, reductionism.==== 8 + 9 + 10 +====Brain studies prove personal identity doesn't exist. ==== 11 +**Parfit 84**^^^^Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984). – Hebron AL 12 +Some recent medical cases provide striking evidence in favour of the Reductionist View. Human 13 +AND 14 +, and can receive two different answers written by this person's two hands. 15 + 16 + 17 +====In the absence of personal identity, only end states can matter ==== 18 +**Shoemaker 99**^^^^Shoemaker, David (Dept of Philosophy, U Memphis). "Utilitarianism and Personal Identity." The Journal of Value Inquiry 33: 183–199, 1999. http://www.csun.edu/~~ds56723/jvipaper.pdf - Hebron AL 19 +Extreme reductionism might lend support to utilitarianism in the following way. Many people claim 20 +AND 21 +, would be the most plausible. Utilitarianism is just such a theory. 22 + 23 + 24 +====Second, moral uncertainty means that extinction comes first under any moral system.==== 25 +**Bostrom 1**^^^^Nick Bostrom, 2001 prof of Philosophy, Oxford University ~~ Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001 March, JStor – Hebron AL 26 +~~Brackets for clarity~~ These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest~~s~~ an 27 +AND 28 +to increase the probability that the future will contain a lot of value. 29 + 30 + 31 +====Third, respect for human worth would justify util. ==== 32 +**Cummiskey 90**^^^^Cummiskey, David. Associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. "Kantian Consequentiaism." Ethics 100 (April 1990), University of Chicago. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381810 - Hebron AL 33 +We must not obscure the issue by characterizing this type of case as the sacrifice 34 +AND 35 +a fundamental equality that dictates that some must sometimes give way for the sake 36 + 37 + 38 +====Fourth, the very nature of the US government is to maximize utility. ==== 39 +**Abraham Lincoln 1864**^^^^Lincoln, Abraham (16^^th^^ President of the US, Solid beard, Stopped slavery, Posthumous National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee). Letter to A.G. Hodges. 4 April 1864. – Hebron AL 40 +I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is 41 +AND 42 +should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together. 43 + 44 + 45 +====Fifth, universalizability justifies util. ==== 46 +**Singer 93**^^^^Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics," Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 13-14 – Hebron AL 47 +The universal aspect of ethics, I suggest, does provide a persuasive, although 48 +AND 49 +the course of action most likely to maximize the interests of those affected. - EntryDate
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