I guess I’m thinking about this wrong. I want to either vaporize Frank or have Frank vaporize me for the same deal. I prefer futures with fewer, happier minds. IOW, I guess I accept Nozick’s utility monster.
IOW, I guess I accept the repugnant conclusion.
Don’t you mean you reject it? (The repugnant conclusion involves preferring large numbers of not-as-good lives to smaller numbers of better lives.)
The Repugnant Conclusion is as you say. Perhaps RomeoStevens was accepting that the decision he made is repugnant to the author?
Oops, I meant Nozick’s utility monster.
I guess I’m thinking about this wrong. I want to either vaporize Frank or have Frank vaporize me for the same deal. I prefer futures with fewer, happier minds. IOW, I guess I accept Nozick’s utility monster.
Don’t you mean you reject it? (The repugnant conclusion involves preferring large numbers of not-as-good lives to smaller numbers of better lives.)
The Repugnant Conclusion is as you say. Perhaps RomeoStevens was accepting that the decision he made is repugnant to the author?
Oops, I meant Nozick’s utility monster.