My whole point in the comments on this post has been that it’s a pernicious practice to use such false examples. They leave erroneous impressions and associations. A world where bank-robbery is super-profitable, so profitable as to outweigh the effects of reputation and the like, is not very coherent.
A better example would be something like: “would utilitarians support raising taxes to fund malaria eradication,” or “would a utilitarian who somehow inherited swoopo.com (a dollar auction site) shut down the site or use the revenue to save kids from malaria” or “if a utilitarian inherited the throne in a monarchy like Oman (without the consent of the people) would he spend tax revenues on international good causes or return them to the taxpayers?”
My whole point in the comments on this post has been that it’s a pernicious practice to use such false examples. They leave erroneous impressions and associations. A world where bank-robbery is super-profitable, so profitable as to outweigh the effects of reputation and the like, is not very coherent.
A better example would be something like: “would utilitarians support raising taxes to fund malaria eradication,” or “would a utilitarian who somehow inherited swoopo.com (a dollar auction site) shut down the site or use the revenue to save kids from malaria” or “if a utilitarian inherited the throne in a monarchy like Oman (without the consent of the people) would he spend tax revenues on international good causes or return them to the taxpayers?”