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A happiness pump is a philosophical thought experiment. It is a critique of utilitarianism. A happiness pump is someone who will do anything to increase other people's well-being even if it reduces their own profoundly.[1] They have turned themselves into a machine (a "pump") that makes happiness.
Utilitarianism states that actions that make more happiness or less pain are good and actions that reduce happiness or increase pain are bad and treats them as measurable and discrete. In utilitarianism, it does not matter who is becoming happier or feeling less pain. The happiness pump is a person who has taken utilitarianism too far and will give themselves great pain so long as they believe it makes other people somewhere in the world much happier.[1]
Philosopher Joshua David Greene says it is almost impossible for a happiness pump to exist in real life because anyone who tried would give up very shortly.[2]
^ abKimberly S. Engels (2020). The Good Place and Philosophy: Everything is Forking Fine!. p. 19. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
^Joshua David Greene (2013). Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. Penguin Press. p. 257. ISBN 9780143126058. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
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