Re:How to Be Happy
by TeMPOraL on Monday July 21, 2014 @01:10PM
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For more-less exactly the same reason you accept general relativity over aristotelian motion - it is derived from first principles using maths, can be shown to match experience even if somewhat intuitive to people, and works pretty well in practice.
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Re:How to Be Happy
by randallsquared on Monday July 21, 2014 @03:08PM
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> can be shown to match experience even if somewhat [un]intuitive to people, and works pretty well in practice.
I think these are the two points that those skeptical of utilitarianism have trouble with: it's exactly that it doesn't seem to match experience that started this thread. Additionally, it doesn't actually seem to work well in practice: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/07/the_argument_fr_...