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A comment on How to Be Good: Derek Parfit's Moral Philosophy.

Re:How to Be Good: Derek Parfit's Moral Philosophy by elevenfist on Sunday March 13, 2016 @03:42PM (#11279034)
How about a simple, preliminary measure for morality:

How much suffering does someone inflict upon the rest of humanity?

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Re:How to Be Good: Derek Parfit's Moral Philosophy by F_J_H on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:00PM (#11279105)
Yep - that's another way of stating the consequentialist view, which is a class of normative ethical theories.

( edited as my first take could be seen as condescending.)

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