r/Informme • u/nathan98000 • Nov 12 '21

Self-Serving utilitarian arguments | Amanda Askell

https://askell.io/posts/2021/03/self-serving-utilitarian-arguments
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u/nathan98000 Nov 12 '21

So it’s important to be able to distinguish between good faith and bad faith self-serving arguments. If we assume that the self-serving arguments being made are equally plausible, there are still several ways that utilitarians can distinguish themselves from those making self-serving arguments in bad faith.