To clarify: I'm not so much interested in the comparative "worse for" claim, but just the person-affecting welfarist question of whether it is *bad for* Misery (non-comparatively, as per McMahan).
I do think that would be crazy to deny. Though, for sure, there's logical space to hold that you should not press the button but that this is f…
To clarify: I'm not so much interested in the comparative "worse for" claim, but just the person-affecting welfarist question of whether it is *bad for* Misery (non-comparatively, as per McMahan).
I do think that would be crazy to deny. Though, for sure, there's logical space to hold that you should not press the button but that this is for reasons unrelated to beneficence/non-maleficence. There's logical space to make any number of clearly false claims (and some philosophers do make them!).
To clarify: I'm not so much interested in the comparative "worse for" claim, but just the person-affecting welfarist question of whether it is *bad for* Misery (non-comparatively, as per McMahan).
I do think that would be crazy to deny. Though, for sure, there's logical space to hold that you should not press the button but that this is for reasons unrelated to beneficence/non-maleficence. There's logical space to make any number of clearly false claims (and some philosophers do make them!).