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narrow utilitarianism

Blog · Philosophy · 2021 · 35 words

To be properly utilitarian, you must occasionally be useless, just as highs require lows and light needs dark. A koan-like paradox about the nature of usefulness.

narrow utilitarianism

just as it takes the lows to define the highs,
and the dark to define the light,
if you want to be properly utilitarian,
you must from time to time be an absolutely useless fellow

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