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Ethics

Title text: Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility.

Votey

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[Redheaded girl following black-haired girl, walking in the snow]

Redheaded girl: What do you think is the right ethics system for humans?

Black-haired girl: Hybrid.

[Both kids are now climbing snowy hill]

Black-haired girl: When a scientific study comes out showing that my pre-existing beliefs would produce the happiest outcomes, I am a utilitarian.

[They are getting to the top of the now steep hill]

Black-haired girl: When a scientific study comes out showing that my pre-existing beliefs would not produce the happiest outcomes, I keep my old position and insist my values are founded in iron moral law.

[Now on the top, looking at the stars]

Black-haired girl: It's impossible to know what philosophy is best, which means some perspective always justifies me in changing nothing about myself in response to new information!

[Wide, far away monochrome shot of the kids on the top]

Redheaded girl: If your moral standards are openly self-contradictory, how can they be the right ones for humans?

Black-haired girl: God knows we are hypocrites and wants us to be happy.

Votey Transcript

[Black-haired girl talking]

I'm a virtue ethicist who believes human flourishing is based on ego-preserving bad logic.

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