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Utilitarianism is wrong. Suppose I have a bike and someone steals it and then uses it along with sharing it with their friends. I will be pretty upset but they will all be very happy. Despite there being more happiness as a result it doesn’t make it right
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Anonymous 10w

At small scale I see the issues but when you make the example bigger I see less flaws. For example stealing almost all of Jeff bezos’s money might make him sad but it would make the world a much better place

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

If the mass majority of the country requires Native American land in order to grow crops to survive and tap their underground water tables, would you be for or against that for greater society?

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Anonymous replying to -> __joker__ 10w

For or against what? The mass displacement of native Americans?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

If the land is required to feed and support more people. Yes. That is the question I’m asking you.

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Anonymous replying to -> __joker__ 10w

Sassy sassy, I just wanted clarification because your question was unclear

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

But idk about that one because the land isn’t required to feed us, there’s plenty of land that’s totally wasted. We could leave large parts of the country to native Americans and still have plenty of land to farm on, especially today. But maybe that’s not the point you’re trying to get at? Lmk if that answered your question or not

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

I’m trying to see if consistency holds with your logic. The concept of the hypothetical is that the land and the water tables are required, not if there is land or water else where. We could say that there is land and water else where, but they would just be owned by a different nationality or ethnic group like Mexico, China, Japan, etc. The “who” doesn’t matter here, it’s that they’re a minority and they hold a resource that more people can benefit from if it’s taken as opposed to be kept.

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