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Utilitarianism requires people to be convinced by an argument that cooperation is a useful goal at all and that it is useful to enable everyone to be as happy as possible. | Utilitarianism requires people to be convinced by an argument that cooperation is a useful goal at all and that it is useful to enable everyone to be as happy as possible. | ||
Such an argument could be that making everyone happy reduces the chance of conflict and makes the world a more pleasurable place to be in, enabling us to travel with little fear of danger, maximizing social trust. | Such an argument could be that making everyone happy reduces the chance of conflict and makes the world a more pleasurable place to be in, enabling us to travel with little fear of danger, maximizing social trust. | ||
Shaming and the resulting virtue signaling can help enforcing everyone to accept this goal, but such shaming bears the danger that people get fed up with it. | Shaming and the resulting [[virtue signaling]] can help enforcing everyone to accept this goal, but such shaming bears the danger that people get fed up with it. | ||
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