utilitarianism

from Reasons for “Correctness” utilitarianism

• bentham (Bentham’s root beer)
  • Criticized the common law (common law) ideas of his time and called for substantive law (statute law)
  • In order for bad laws not to be established, “what is a good law?
  • utilitarian principle
    • It is good to promote happiness.
    • Pleasure is good, pain is evil.
    • GBM
    • tyranny of the majority
    • Intolerant sentient people create an intolerant society that does not recognize the freedom of others in the name of common sense.
      • Harm to Others Principle, if it doesn’t bother you, you can do it.
    • Only a few people have originality.
    • mill “Some pleasures are worth more than others” Unsatisfied Socrates over satisfied pigs.
    • It assumes the existence of a tolerant intellectual elite that judges quality.
    • No one wants to be a lower life form, even if it gives them bestial pleasures.” but is it justified to interfere by saying, “Don’t read pornographic books, read the works of the Nobel Prize in Literature?”
  • preference utilitarianism
    • given an individual’s preferences
    • Not sure if it would be a good governing system. - Arrow’s general possibility theorem - Sen’s liberal paradox

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