The easiest answer is that nobody is seriously anything even remotely approaching utilitarian.
Try writing down your utility function in even some very limited domain, and you’ll see that yourself.
Utilitarianism is a mathematical model that has very convenient mathematical properties,
and has enough numbers to tweak available that you can use it to analyze some very simple
situations (see the entire discipline of economics). It breaks very quickly when you push it a little.
And seriously, exercise of writing down point system of what is worth how many utility points to you
is really eye-opening, I wrote a post on lesswrong about it ages ago if you’re interested.
The easiest answer is that nobody is seriously anything even remotely approaching utilitarian. Try writing down your utility function in even some very limited domain, and you’ll see that yourself.
Utilitarianism is a mathematical model that has very convenient mathematical properties, and has enough numbers to tweak available that you can use it to analyze some very simple situations (see the entire discipline of economics). It breaks very quickly when you push it a little.
And seriously, exercise of writing down point system of what is worth how many utility points to you is really eye-opening, I wrote a post on lesswrong about it ages ago if you’re interested.