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Self Torture and Group Beneficence
Frank Arntzenius and David McCarthy
Erkenntnis (1975-)
Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jul., 1997), pp. 129-144
Published by: Springer
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20012789
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Abstract
Moral puzzles about actions which bring about very small or what are said to be imperceptible harms or benefits for each of a large number of people are well known. Less well known is an argument by Warren Quinn that standard theories of rationality can lead an agent to end up torturing himself or herself in a completely foreseeable way, and that this shows that standard theories of rationality need to be revised. We show where Quinn's argument goes wrong, and apply this to the moral puzzles.
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