John Jensen
rizzuh.bsky.social
John Jensen
@rizzuh.bsky.social
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I don't view utilitarian ethics as objective. Like all ethics, utilitarianism is marred by relativism and of course valuing and tracking real world events isn't easy. Anyway I think this rut should end. Are you able to directly make your argument or do you need "people in the field" to do so?
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Produce the finding that say he's wrong and that the marginal spend to BBC is better

When I said ethics I knew that utilitarianism was one example and you are over-explaining this. I said "ethics" b/c there are many valid frameworks for evaluating how your own tax dollars are spent
February 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Are you illiterate? Utilitarianism is an ethical framework.
February 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sorry if I'm misreading you as pompous and came back too strongly, but the basic point is that you cannot actually call an expert and have them answer subjective questions about individual values and utilitarian ethics. You can ask them for empirical data sure, but you're not saying this.
February 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You have a child-like understanding of ethics. Utilitarian ethics is about what interventions matter, are effective, and to what scale. Your response to me is that Matt should call an expert so they can say "good things are good". Your appeal to authority is wholly unconvincing.
February 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
regarding what is clearly a questions of ethics, you believe Matt can just call up someone in the field and have them answer how to correctly value different interventions
February 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
btw getting ahead of this- of course there are other people involved in the decision for that child, but that isn't your argument. You're just saying sometimes regret happens and that's part of life ignoring the whole child part of this which is at issue!
December 6, 2024 at 8:35 PM
~8–12 year olds don't typically aren't deciding to move their family, go to college, or have kids. But you're saying here they may decide to transition, may make permanent changes, and they may later have regret, just like people might regret these other decisions. Very weak argument actually.
December 6, 2024 at 8:33 PM
You're replying to a joke with a worse version of it, which is extremely shameful and immoral. Think deeply on this
December 6, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Yes, he's extremely online and the post isn't subtle
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM