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In a generation that values emotion and disvalues reason, cool and collected discourse is not admired, not trusted.
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Even though he disvalues hunger today and hunger tomorrow equally, eating one banana today assuages his hunger more effectively than saving that banana for tomorrow.
The Myth of Time Preference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The same morality will, of course, also enable him to avoid all those disvalues that would otherwise retard his life.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Although in some instances these acts may yield short-term net values, with the passage of time they are highly likely to convert to serious disvalues.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Average utilitarianism disvalues additional individuals whose utility is below the average, which is very restrictive for affluent populations.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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Please note that what gives rise to positive emotions (feelings of well being, such as happiness) are values, and that what gives rise to negative emotions are disvalues.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Similarly, he must use his rationality in order to identify and act to avoid all the disvalues that would otherwise retard or destroy his life.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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A less restrictive approach is that of critical-level utilitarianism, which disvalues only individuals whose utility level is below some fixed, low but positive threshold.
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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This negative utilitarianism implies that the government should provide contraceptives, since that program reduces pain (and other disvalues), even though it also decreases total net pleasure (or good).
Consequentialism Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter 2006
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Was he working at Panera because he was unable to find a management job in the new economy, which disvalues the older, experienced worker?
Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse ricklibrarian 2005
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