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Utilitarianism

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Utilitarianism: an action is right insofar as it produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number—consequences, impartially totaled, are the whole story.

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Bentham's radical arithmetic: each counts for one, none for more than one—prince, pauper, and, he noted, animals that suffer.