“The primary thing is to help others, whatever the means. So shut up and multiply!”
Would you submit to torture for 50 years to save countless people? I’m not sure I would, but I think I’m more comfortable with the idea of being self-interested and seeing all things through the prism of self interest.
Similar problem: if you had this choice—you can die peacefully and experience no afterlife, or literally experience hell for 100 years if one was rewarded with an eternity of heaven, would you choose the latter? Calculating which provides the greatest utility, the latter would be preferable, but I’m not sure I would choose it.
“The primary thing is to help others, whatever the means. So shut up and multiply!”
Would you submit to torture for 50 years to save countless people? I’m not sure I would, but I think I’m more comfortable with the idea of being self-interested and seeing all things through the prism of self interest.
Similar problem: if you had this choice—you can die peacefully and experience no afterlife, or literally experience hell for 100 years if one was rewarded with an eternity of heaven, would you choose the latter? Calculating which provides the greatest utility, the latter would be preferable, but I’m not sure I would choose it.