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Utilitarianism Is Paradoxical on Pluralistic Moral Value Theory, Which Makes Me Not a Benthamite

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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.

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