Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Yet another counterexample to act utilitarianism

It is wrong to torture a stranger for 100 minutes in order to avoid 99 minutes of equal torture to oneself.

2 comments:

Ethan.Silvernail said...

I could be misunderstanding, but wouldn't an Act Utilitarian agree with this statement since torturing the stranger results in 1 extra minute of torture?

TheApologeticsKid said...

@Ethan I think he meant to switch the 99 and 100