“In the absence of other considerations, you have no preference whether or not people get a dust speck in their eye?”
I can regard the moral significance as zero. I don’t have to take the view that morality “is” preferences, of any kind or degree.
Excessive demandingness is a famous problem with utiltarianism: rounding down helps to curtail it.
“In the absence of other considerations, you have no preference whether or not people get a dust speck in their eye?”
I can regard the moral significance as zero. I don’t have to take the view that morality “is” preferences, of any kind or degree.
Excessive demandingness is a famous problem with utiltarianism: rounding down helps to curtail it.