Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 174 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Too-Demanding Objection
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The idea
The too-demanding objection: if every act must maximize the world's happiness, then dinners out, hobbies, and gifts to your own children become wrongdoing.
In practice
Every dollar of the architect's salary could fight famine. Taken strictly, the theory calls her concert ticket a moral failure — every time.
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