So if killing people is pleasurable to a serial killer then his well-being is increased by killing people, and, therefore, his killing people is morally good? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
If well-being and morally good are not connected, how can hedonism be a moral theory? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
this article — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Hedonism, as I’ve said, is just a theory of well-being. By itself, then, it has nothing to say about how we should live. Importantly, it does not say we should live so as to maximise our own self-interest – that (false) theory is called egoism.
By making pleasure an end in itself, hedonism was sure to have its ethical opponents.
In this article it is stated that, “Simply put, hedonism says that your well-being is fully determined by your pleasures and pains..."
So if killing people is pleasurable to a serial killer then his well-being is increased by killing people, and, therefore, his killing people is morally good? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
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