Killing it reduces the overall suffering, since its quality of life is well below the “barely worth living” level, with no hope of improvement.
What if it can’t be easily killed?
That doesn’t work for preference utilitarians (it would strongly prefer to remain alive).
Killing it reduces the overall suffering, since its quality of life is well below the “barely worth living” level, with no hope of improvement.
What if it can’t be easily killed?
That doesn’t work for preference utilitarians (it would strongly prefer to remain alive).