I suspect that most people already are utilitarians—albeit with implicit calculation of their utility function. In other words, they already figure out what they think is best and do that (if they thought something else was better, it’s what they’d do instead).
I suspect that most people already are utilitarians—albeit with implicit calculation of their utility function. In other words, they already figure out what they think is best and do that (if they thought something else was better, it’s what they’d do instead).
Utilitarian =/= utility maximizer.