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comment by shiranaihito
shiranaihito  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Repugnant Conclusion

    Basically, rule utilitarianism calls for the creation of 'moral rules-of-thumb'

.. Moral rules of thumb like The NAP?

The thing is, you only need two moral rules of thumb:

    1) Don't aggress against other people
    2) Don't violate their property rights (through theft, fraud etc)
If there's a need for more detailed analysis, that can and should be done on a case-by-case basis. You could come up with countless contrived edge cases like The Trolley Problem, but practical impossibilities don't matter in real life, and whatever strange situations actually come up can be handled when they do.

Anything else is just overcomplicating things.