What COVID-19 can teach us about the failure of rule utilitarianism

People: are they good or bad? It’s a difficult question to answer, and that’s because it involves the less-than-straightforward job of defining what “good” and “bad” mean. You might think you know what those words mean, but you don’t. The answer to the question of what those words mean has been raging for literal millennia. In double fact, the area of study devoted to answering that question has its own name: ETHICS.

And as someone who can barely remember an ounce of the eight weeks or so they did on ethics to…