As you suggest with your “some” qualifier, my essay that benthamite shared doesn’t make any assumptions about negative utilitarianism. I merely inserted parentheticals about my own views into it to avoid giving the impression that I’m personally a positive-leaning utilitarian.
Thanks, Luke. See also this follow-up discussion to Ord’s essay.
As you suggest with your “some” qualifier, my essay that benthamite shared doesn’t make any assumptions about negative utilitarianism. I merely inserted parentheticals about my own views into it to avoid giving the impression that I’m personally a positive-leaning utilitarian.
Nice discussion there! Thanks for the link.