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When Utilitarianism Becomes Mob Rule

When Utilitarianism Becomes Mob Rule

We are all Benthamites now!

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Dara Macdonald
Oct 14, 2022
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“We are all Benthamites now!” declared my Criminal Law lecturer at university. And never has the axiom that the way measure right and wrong is the greatest happiness for the greatest number been more popular.

Just as Bentham preserved himself for the benefit of future generations, his ideas has been kept alive for years until they would find themselves a…

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