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Originally Posted by elphenor
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let's assume you'd be happier born in China than in the US or UK
do we still know the reduced Freedom is bad?
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yeah but it's overly simplistic to say utilitarian ethics is just about happiness. Just like any other ethical system, there can be competing values.
So you can seek to maximize "well being," of which happiness is might be only one metric. Autonomy could in and of itself be seen as a componant of well being, in which case you've only demonstrated that different metrics of well being can come into conflict, which doesn't actually undermine the general idea of maximizing utility.