Bentham's utilitarianism is the weakest part of his philosophy. But i think he's a wonderful thinker and if you read more of him, you'd be very impressed. I would put it this way, in so far as we can aggregate, and to make a choice, a policy choice, you have to aggregate insome but i think we aggregate by making moral judgments about different kinds of well being. So it's all to me, parasitic on pluralistic moral value theory which makes me not a benthamite. Giveme, give me 25 pages to start with that i may have that way. Ave missed.
Can Israeli society survive the loss of universal military service? Will the deregulation of Israel's kosher supervision spell the end of its Jewish character? And, speaking of Israel, what is it that makes its television dramas so good? Tyler Cowen discusses these and other subjects with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, new immigrant to Israel and unabashed fan of the Prisoners of War miniseries and Homer's Odyssey.