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Mill wrote about utilitarianism in 1861. While most haven’t heard of his theories, his ideas are integral to modern thinking about justice systems and governments. Philosophical ideas trickle down into practicality just like any other research, but the turnaround time is so much longer.
This is the problem of deconstruction. If you constantly analyze and tear apart theories, you find that every abstract structure doesn’t really make sense. Deconstructing religion leads to nihilism. Deconstructing deontology leads to utilitarianism (see philosophical collapse, deconstructing utilitarianism leads to even more nihilism. This process applies to every branch of philosophy I’ve encountered, the more you think about these branches, the more you find out that every theory is ad-hoc, that every structure humans have made to organize thought are built off of nothing. In the same way that the patriarchy is a meaninglessness concept built by humans to make sense of society, maybe ethics itself is a meaninglessness concept.
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Churchill could feed the Nazis bad information which would lead their bombs off course and strike less populated areas. This is, in a utilitarian sense, objectively good, but is it ok for Churchill to choose who lives or dies?
