blacktrance comments on Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 November 2007 03:19AM

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Comment author: blacktrance 19 April 2013 11:55:56PM 0 points [-]

this would make it difficult to explain how we could care about anyone else's happiness - how we could treat people as ends in themselves, rather than instrumental means of obtaining a warm glow of satisfaction

And why should we actually treat people as "ends in themselves"? What's bad about treating everything except one's own happiness as instrumental?