Lots of you already know that I’ve a second weblog entitled “TheMoneyIllusion. Yesterday, I concluded that weblog and began a alternative, entitled The Pursuit of Happiness:
URL: scottsumner.substack.com/
Talking of happiness, here’s a query to contemplate:
What are the general public insurance policies that you simply oppose despite the fact that you consider that they’d make the world a happier place in the long term?
I’m not excited about unrealistic hypothetical insurance policies involving fanciful creatures similar to “utility monsters”; I’m excited about figuring out which precise actual world insurance policies you oppose even if you consider these insurance policies would make the world a happier place.
Maybe you’ll discover an instance of an precise coverage that I must also oppose, which can persuade me to desert my utilitarianism.
PS. Please don’t inform me that that is the incorrect query. It’s the query that pursuits me.
PPS. A Straussian studying of this put up is that utilitarianism, correctly understood, doesn’t present clear solutions when deciding which public insurance policies are greatest. We’re like ships navigating in a dense fog. (The identical could possibly be mentioned for Bayesian evaluation.)
Right here’s an image of Jeremy Bentham: