Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 158 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mill's Quality Reply
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The idea
Mill's reply: pleasures differ in quality, not only quantity — "better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."
In practice
Mill's test: those acquainted with both sides choose the harder human pleasures over easy animal ones — and their verdict, he argues, settles the ranking.
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