The quote doesn’t imply it only in the sense that it states it explicitly.
The cost of a life is not the same , and the contribution of a life to the future utopia is not the same. So utilitarianism cannot make a clear decision, but the author of the quote clearly does lean to Swedish lives counting more—that fact isn’t changed by pointing out that it isn’t an inevitable consequence of u-ism.
Its unreasonable to ignore the future, but utilitarianism about the future is maths with made-up numbers, which is also unreasonable. Looks like utilitarianism is broken.
The quote doesn’t imply it only in the sense that it states it explicitly.
The cost of a life is not the same , and the contribution of a life to the future utopia is not the same. So utilitarianism cannot make a clear decision, but the author of the quote clearly does lean to Swedish lives counting more—that fact isn’t changed by pointing out that it isn’t an inevitable consequence of u-ism.
Its unreasonable to ignore the future, but utilitarianism about the future is maths with made-up numbers, which is also unreasonable. Looks like utilitarianism is broken.