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Utilitarianism - Part 2: The greatest happiness principle
What if the whole of morality could be boiled down to a single question: Will this action increase happiness or reduce suffering for everyone affected? It’s an idea so simple it sounds like common sense, but so radical it rewrote the rules of ethics. At its core, utilitarianism makes a bold claim: judge actions, laws, and institutions by their consequences for happiness. Not by their pedigree, not by their intention, but by how they affect the real lives of sentient beings.
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