Ok. Yeah, “Consequentialism” or “VNM utilitarianism” is usually used for that concepts to distinguish from the moral theory that says you should make choices consistent with a utility function constructed by some linear aggregation of “welfare” or whatever across all agents.
It would be a tragedy to adopt Utilitarianism just because it is consequentialist.
Right, they are different. A creative rereading of my post could interpret it as talking about two concepts DanielLC might have meant by “utilitarianism”.
Ok. Yeah, “Consequentialism” or “VNM utilitarianism” is usually used for that concepts to distinguish from the moral theory that says you should make choices consistent with a utility function constructed by some linear aggregation of “welfare” or whatever across all agents.
It would be a tragedy to adopt Utilitarianism just because it is consequentialist.
I get consequentialism. It’s Utilitarianism that I don’t understand.
Minor nitpick: Consequentialism =/= VNM utilitarianism
Right, they are different. A creative rereading of my post could interpret it as talking about two concepts DanielLC might have meant by “utilitarianism”.