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Re:Utility monster by gowld on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:46AM (#23192082)
> from which the supposed egalitarianism stems. The whole premise is that utility monsters don't exist.

Yes, but you took the wrong lesson. Utility Monsters prove that utilitarianism is a bad model for reality.

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Re:Utility monster by gmac on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:54AM (#23192179)
Utility Monsters prove that utilitarianism is a bad model for reality.

I think it's a pretty big stretch to say that something that doesn't exist proves anything at all.

I've always felt utility monsters were just bad philosophy trying to throw a spanner in the works of a fairer society.

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Re:Utility monster by lucideer on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:01AM (#23192256)
I don't think I did. Assignment of units to beings isn't a model, it's an approach.

Don't get me wrong, utilitarianism is a bad approach in reality, but this isn't why.

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