This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. And as a suggested topic, today lets talk about Negative Utilitarianism and Utilitarianism. Let me start off by sharing two examples of two news stories.
Last month I woke up and the first article I read on Daily kos was Pakalolo’s dairy, Sorry to harsh the nonstop Maga vibe. We may have just lost Trinidad and Tobago. I then turned on my local San Francisco Bay Area News and was confronted by the news that Sunday 1.5 billion chicken wings will be consumed while watching the super bowl game. In truth the National Chicken Council says it will be only 1.45 billion, so I guess I can forgive the news media for rounding it up to make a simple headline.
While reading Pakalolo’s diary all I could think about was the suffering to he living ecosystem as it is killed by the extraction of oil. And this includes the suffering humans that depend on the ecosystem being healthy. Just contrast this with the maximizing pleasure being reported that there enough chicken wings available to party with while watching a football game. Jump the fold to see where I’m going with this.
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