No, they don’t have any major differences in utilitarian systems.
It seems I was confused when trying to answer your question. Utilitarianism can be seen as an abstract system of rules to compute stuff.
Certain ways to apply those rules to compute stuff are also called utilitarianism, including the philosophy that the maximum total utility of a population should preclude over the utility of one individual.
If utilitarianism is simply the set of rules you use to compute which things are best for one single purely selfish agent, then no, nothing concludes that the agent should sacrifice anything. If you adhere to the classical philosophy related to those rules, then yes, any human will conclude what I’ve said in that second paragraph in the grandparent (or something similar). This latter (the philosophy) is historically what appeared first, and is also what’s exposed on wikipedia’s page on utilitarianism.
No, they don’t have any major differences in utilitarian systems.
It seems I was confused when trying to answer your question. Utilitarianism can be seen as an abstract system of rules to compute stuff.
Certain ways to apply those rules to compute stuff are also called utilitarianism, including the philosophy that the maximum total utility of a population should preclude over the utility of one individual.
If utilitarianism is simply the set of rules you use to compute which things are best for one single purely selfish agent, then no, nothing concludes that the agent should sacrifice anything. If you adhere to the classical philosophy related to those rules, then yes, any human will conclude what I’ve said in that second paragraph in the grandparent (or something similar). This latter (the philosophy) is historically what appeared first, and is also what’s exposed on wikipedia’s page on utilitarianism.
Isn’t that decision theory?