happiness in The Knight

maru · 22 Mar 2005, 16:48 · from 2005-March.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Tue Mar 22 16:48:58 2005
Subject: (urth) happiness in The Knight
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Iorwerth Thomas wrote:

> *Puts on G. E. Moore mask*
>
> 'And why is maximising that in the majority of the population good?'
>
> Iorwerth
>
> (who really should be getting some work done instead of discussing 
> ethics)
>
Because it is the only feedback that seems reliably correlated with
'the good', is universal and unambigous, and is also objectively measurable?

~Maru

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