lmao these utilitarian clowns can't even explain why people watch sad movies, what kind of overarching theory of everything is this?
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"Greatest happiness for the greatest number" has to be the funniest conception for morality, because if you look at basically anyone, they very rarely even try to maximize their own happiness.
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Bentham: pleasure is utility, utility should be maximised. Also Bentham: my prison will be the most utilitarian ever. Also Bentham: I've changed my mind on whether torture is always bad.
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Or they always do, but are so unsuccessful at it that the idea of basing morality on our ability to foresee consequences is laughable at best and terrifying when considered carefully.
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That because we don't understand how to get it.
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I don't know what I want, but I know how to get it ... I want to be anarchy
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that's not a contradiction, that just tells us people are abjectly useless at being moral even in the simplest case
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UCL will tell you it's King's students who keep trying to steal the preserved head of Jeremy Bentham, but it's not, it's the computer science department, who need it to complete the gigantic PANOPTICRON 9000 robot-god-king whose massive form is currently disguised as Senate House
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Happiness is overrated as a concept anyway.
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