I can’t fully pass an ITT, especially as conservatives tend to reject Utilitarian-style analysis in the first place. I think the underlying intuition is that it’s OK if the average wierdo suffers, as long as the really valuable ones get the benefit for most of the normals (or the representative normal maybe—it’s hard to pin down whether this is median, mean, some middle percentile, or what).
So, yes—weirdos are harmful on average, but beneficial often enough that we should discourage too many or too weird but not fully eliminate them. Kind of weirdly, this kind of diversity (willingness to accept a range of pleasantness and value of lives) is truly anathema to progressives.
I can’t fully pass an ITT, especially as conservatives tend to reject Utilitarian-style analysis in the first place. I think the underlying intuition is that it’s OK if the average wierdo suffers, as long as the really valuable ones get the benefit for most of the normals (or the representative normal maybe—it’s hard to pin down whether this is median, mean, some middle percentile, or what).
So, yes—weirdos are harmful on average, but beneficial often enough that we should discourage too many or too weird but not fully eliminate them. Kind of weirdly, this kind of diversity (willingness to accept a range of pleasantness and value of lives) is truly anathema to progressives.