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southerndrift
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No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite
... implying that happiness is not scalar. But if happiness is not measurable, what does utilitarianism measure? The amount of pain - or rather the lack thereof?
Der_Einzige
on Aug 22, 2019
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What you are describing is called "Negative Utilitarianism"
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