Literature
Layperson's Non-Strawman Hybrid Utilitarianism
FULL TITLE:
Layperson’s Non-Strawman Lexical Threshold Negative Utilitarianism (LTNU), Hybridized with Classical Utilitarianism (CU), per Species-Wide Suffering Threshold Analysis
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WHAT THIS IS:
A dual-regime, threshold-triggered utilitarian decision architecture. When extreme suffering is present beyond a defined limit, it is treated as a governing priority; when it is not, decision-making returns to aggregate welfare optimization under standard comparative tradeoffs.
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VISION STATEMENT:
Many utilitarian ethical frameworks fail in one of two recurring ways. Either they flatten severe suffering into just another data point in a general tradeoff system, where it can be outweighed by a sufficient number of small benefits, or they reject structured tradeoffs entirely and collapse into rigid, impractical rules that cannot survive contact with real-world complexity. These failures are not incidental. They arise from structural features of modern institutions and incentive
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