Mill y la realidad virtual: una reivindicación del principio del daño
Mill and Virtual Reality: a vindication of the Harm Principle
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https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2025.i60.13Keywords:
virtual reality, high pleasures, experiments in living, equivalence principle, harm principleAbstract
Virtual reality offers multiple benefits. From a Millean perspective, two benefits stand out. One is that it makes the sources of higher pleasures available to more individuals. A second one is that RV offers a broader catalog of ways of life. In some virtual environments, it is possible to have virtual real experiences. For these situations, some authors have proposed the Equivalence Principle.
My purpose in this text is to offer a consequentialist reading of this principle, respecting the freedom of individuals with the only limitations established by Mill in the Harm Principle.
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