Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 6

Watch the first hour of this video. Notice how the different utilitarians may decide the best action based on numbers and quantities - for example, numbers of lives saved in a particular scenario. If that is the case, then utilitarians have to ask whether the best consequences are merely based on numbers or based on higher values, like the value of one individual life.


Source: Marianne Talbot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnqMcL2G5s
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