A problem with utilitarianism: countless regimes have used it over the centuries to justify their crimes. David Gordon points out today how utilitarianism tells us nothing is so evil that it is absolutely forbidden. That’s a problem.
Also today: It’s one thing to tolerate the state as an unfortunate reality of the modern world. It’s another thing entirely to actively defend the state and explain why it’s “necessary.” Per Bylund today explains the difference.
Lots more below and at mises.org this week.
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The Futility of Utility
David Gordon
Mainstream economics is obsessed with “maximizing” so-called utility functions and discovering the ubiquitous “social utility curve.” In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes apart this “utility” fixation.
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