timtyler comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 31 December 2011 01:29:44PM 0 points [-]

Among other things, if you try to violate "utilitarianism", you run into paradoxes, contradictions, circular preferences, and other things that aren't symptoms of moral wrongness so much as moral incoherence.

It seems to be an unsubstantiated slur on other moral systems :-(