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Squark09 OP t1_iwiq1rn wrote

Reply to comment by trinite0 in Utilitarianism is the only option — but you have to take conscious experience seriously first by Squark09

As I say in the article, most of the time deontological or virtue ethics are actually a better bet for figuring out how to act. But that's just because they're a more efficient way of reasoning the best thing to do. In the end the thing that matters is the sum total of positive conscious experience

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trinite0 t1_iwir4yz wrote

There is no such thing as a "sum total of positive conscious experience." Why do you think there would be?

Or if there is, how could such a thing possibly be accessible to our limited, forgetful, mortal brains?

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