I’m reading the new biography of Derek Parfit at the moment. It contains an interesting anecdote. When he watched a movie that seemed to show Hitler doing a little jig after the conquest of Paris by the Nazis, Derek Parfit responded with words to the effect of "Well, at least a moment of happiness for someone came out of that great tragedy".
There are useful thought experiments that horrify most people to the extent that they can't see their utility; not always, parenthetically, the people I'd predict to shut down.
There are useful thought experiments that horrify most people to the extent that they can't see their utility; not always, parenthetically, the people I'd predict to shut down.