utilitarianism philosophy riddle: how can you maximize happiness for the greater amount of people with affordable budget?

[patcon guy]

discuss.

 

[DOUBLE_WHEEL]

Kill them all, the only truly happy people are dead.

 

[Claude Sigma]

Happiness is a loaded concept if it's not precisely defined in the context of the thought experiment.
The wealth that people have today is absolutely incredible compared to 500, or 5000 years ago, yet I do not think we are "happier".
If you want people to be happy, making them adopt a religion/philosophy that teaches them to find contentment and happiness in their situation -whatever that situation may be- will have a greater result than throwing ungodly amount of money at the problem.

I do believe that there is an utilitarian argument to a totalitarian theocracy.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

Have the mainstream media constantly tell everyone that they are happy. It doesn't have to be true, but if a "trusted source" tells the nigger cattle something they will believe it no questions asked.

 

[batterybee]

Pursuing happiness directly is very low T, smh ....

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Have the mainstream media constantly tell everyone that they are happy. It doesn't have to be true, but if a "trusted source" tells the nigger cattle something they will believe it no questions asked.

"Recent studies say that in order to be truly happy, you need to buy product. Do not question product. Buy product. If you don't buy product, you are rejecting the studies, which were conducted with The Science. Rejecting the studies means denying The Science. You don't deny The Science, do you?"

 

[Slur Generator]

We get rid of the neighbors and their ilk. its that simple.

 

[GunCar Gary]

you can't force other people to be happy or to improve themselves, even with infinite money. you might as well throw all that cash into a bonfire and have a cookout with your family

 

[Audit]

Fitness facsism is the only route forward. The masses suffer because they are afflicted by the original sin: being an overweight, pathetic landwhale. Once the leather clad, metal studded regime arrives, all obesity will be sent to the fat camps to be burnt away in the oven of a well fitted track suit until the former fat faggots are reshaped into attractive fitness gods.

This is the path to utopia. A world filled with nothing but sexy, attractive people who spend hours each day working on their forms.

 

[JethroTullamore]

@patcon guy has a clown fetish and a small penis, if we all laughed at that more we’d be more happier.

 

[Spunt]

Every time @patcon guy posts another no-effort thread or one of his idiotic ramblings, the lives of everyone who reads them get worse. Ergo, he should kill himself, as nothing of value will be lost and the world will be improved.

Best of all, walking into traffic is absolutely free!

 

[Glowie]

Every time @patcon guy posts another no-effort thread or one of his idiotic ramblings, the lives of everyone who reads them get worse. Ergo, he should kill himself, as nothing of value will be lost and the world will be improved.

Best of all, walking into traffic is absolutely free!

Truly, society society would be better off without no effort @arkomia posts, however damage to a vehicle which is owned by a person who contributes to society at large would waste more precious time and resources, I'd suggest drinking bleach and staying in the basement, browsing Kiwifarms on a Chinese smart TV.

That way OP could help society by cleaning his organs and preventing wasting time of people who actually help society

 

[Negrate]

living to be happy is dumb that leads to hedonism like drug abuse and being a fat retard be fufulied and how you do that is in christ and living a simple life and having money don't be a retard like my mom who hides themselfs from reality to be heckin happy bro happyiness is temperary christ is eternal

 

[not william stenchever]

There's a good goddamned reason the Mongols were so effective. They actively enjoyed the life they lived, one that was alien to most of the people they conquered. They were well nourished even in the steppe and needed to be strong, nimble, and good at all kinds of things. People are happy when they have what they need and can overcome significant challenges. The problem with your question though is that you cannot make everyone happy.

 

[Chicken of the woods]

Answer: utilitarianism is dumb and false.

 

[Balalaika Z Bree]

By trying to get as many of them as possible to enter eternity in God's favor you maximize happiness over an infinite time span.

Logically then it is worth making all lives here a lot worse, even for long periods of time, to get even a tiny increase in souls saved.
The preaching of the Gospel should be done for free, with wages paid from voluntary contributions only.


With any budget, large or small, it would be best spent on corporal works of mercy, helping those most in need as this will lead to both the greatest increase of happiness in this life, and will by example help turn people to helping their neighbor.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Economics as Applied Ethics has material on utilitarianism.

Social utility functions are all piss and even if you took the arrogant and autistic idea of calculating well-being seriously it lacks any means to weigh different people's intensity of feeling against each other. You might reason if they have similar biological/behavioral responses to things that indicates the same level of feeling, but that's a pretty big and unjustifiable assumption.

I think it's best to think of social utility functions as just being your utility function if you could make other people's decisions for them, your own personal preference for how the world should be ordered, which is a lot more honest than couching it as some world-saving exercise.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

just pay your employees more is that so hard to understand