April 30, 2012 11:00 am PDT
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Utilitarianism's darkly comical pitfalls
A characteristically great Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal installment explores the hidden pitfalls of extreme utilitarianism. I just re-read Starship Troopers and was once again struck by Heinlein's strange idea of a scientifically provable "moral philosophy" that puts every human situation to the test of being expressed in symbolic logic to weigh its validity. We created [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VtP-lqiK3lg/utilitarianisms-darkly-comic.html
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