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		southerndrift on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Son of Mine Is Going to Be a Benthamite Seems like the father forgot about Dostoyevsky: >Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that. [1] [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky

southerndrift on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

... implying that happiness is not scalar. But if happiness is not measurable, what does utilitarianism measure? The amount of pain - or rather the lack thereof?

Der_Einzige on Aug 22, 2019 | [–]

What you are describing is called "Negative Utilitarianism"

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