The Slave Society or Inequality Counterexample (In Defense of Utilitarianism)

The fifth video of the playlist: "In Defense of Utilitarianism". This playlist is meant to be a lighthearted introduction to the Utilitarian theory, with some bad humor, where we analyze some of the strongest counterarguments and counterexamples that have been made against it.
The novelty and complexity of the playlist will scale up with the video number.
The intent is educational, both for me- I can be corrected or critiqued by the audience- than for the audience - that may learn something new.

In the video, we take a look at a classic counterexample to the Utilitarian moral theory, namely the slave society, that raises the point of how does Utilitarianism deal with inequality. We attempt to fend off this powerful foe by arguing that the counterexample given can never be replicated in our universe.

All serious criticism is welcomed and criticism regarding the utilitarian moral theory will be answered in a separate video.

Corrigendum: 1) Better to say that humans and apes shared a common ancestor than "they evolved from apes".

[fanboy]

1:18 humans should reject humanity and embrace monke

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I think one issue which you should come back to later are arguments which concern the actual normative non-egalitarianism of utilitarianism, I get that it seems often very annoying how people try to attack utilitarianism for implications it really doesn't have in reality, but I personally think it's just as annoying how many utilitarians simply brush away the actual normative issue of whether we should be pure egalitarians about utility itself. The main issue people often point to is that while the principle of diminishing marginal utility is true of money it's not true of utility itself. This is a issue since certain moral theories such as rawlsian contractualism, egalitarian-consequencialism or prioritarianism do assign intrinsically more value to equality in utility or priority to those who have lower utility, while both averagist- and totalist utilitarians will not assign any value beyond utility itself (this is how you in fact get something like a utility monster even after adjusting for diminishing marginal utility). I think it's important to have a discussion on that and the various kinds of distribution dilemmas that exist both for and against utilitarianism and argue against the idea that these other alternatives to utilitarianism try to offer.