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WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 months agoFrom a utilitarian perspective
Pretty sure that’s not what utilitarianism means lol
Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread
WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 months agoFrom a utilitarian perspective
Pretty sure that’s not what utilitarianism means lol
Bacano@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maximizing the utility of labor? I’m alluding to using the components of the scenario in the most efficient way.
How would you express it?
WldFyre@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The “utility” of utilitarianism isn’t that type of utility. IIRC it generally refers to the idea of maximizing happiness and minimizing harm, with a focus on outcomes of the whole, rather than the individual. Efficiency of labor doesn’t explicitly factor into it.
Personally, I think you’re just rationalizing being lazy and potentially causing harm to others, which isn’t utilitarian at all.