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Social Studies, 16.07.2020 09:01 makiasdillard0925

According to Bentham, "the morally correct act is that which brings the greater amount of pleasure to the largest number of people". What problems do you foresee for such a view? How would you modify it? Do you agree that pleasure and pain motivate everything we do and should so motivate us?

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