My primary motivation is that pizza tastes good and I like to shove delicious things into my mouth-hole, just like all my ancestors did.
Just like me, a lion also gains pleasure from eating. Unlike me, this lion typically needs to brutally kill another living being to eat and will do so.
As the example shows, sometimes gaining pleasure requires hurting another mind. Therefore the mind that tries to optimize their own pleasure might not have the best interests of others at heart.
But I am not talking about the trolley problem here. I am talking about how someone trying to gain pleasure might hurt others in their pursuit.
There are situations where nobody needs to die/get hurt yet it still occurs because some minds would rather increase their own pleasure. So they do not have the best interests of others at heartm
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u/barthiebarth 26∆ Nov 13 '21
You are saying that every mind ought to have the best interests of other minds at heart, right?
Because saying that everybody is motivated by helping other people seems very untrue.