rule utilitarianism
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- Rule Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
- allow people to do what they want even if they are not in the right mind
- liberal, agrees that happiness is the aim of life (like Bentham) but believes it is necessary to distinguish between the higher and lower pleasures
- higher pleasure
- long term, deeper, of the mind and spirit
- eg: giving to charity, reading literature, theatre, dance, religion
- lower pleasure
- short term, of the body
- eg: junk food, alcohol, smoking, drugs, meals, sex
- "the smallest amount of higher pleasure is better than a huge amount of lower pleasure." _ JSM
- "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied."
- mill argues you cannot always look at the consequences and bring about the greatest happiness with every decision
- weak rule theory
- rules that have been established for the greater good, should never be broken
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- more strict
- strong rule theory
- rules should be respected up to a point, but that other considerations could lead in some circumstances to the rule being broken
- more flexible
- mill says governments should not rule over people, they should make their own decision to choose the higher pleasure
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