Is Utlilitarianism a suitable philosophy for our times?

M@LaiKa · (#1 (**permalink**))

"The greatest good of the greatest number". Simple. Or is it?

mike pain · (#2 (**permalink**))

in theory, debatable, in practice-

no of course it's not, example, americas manifest destiny,

hitlers worped eugenics psuedo science crap

proportional representation, and only representing those constituents voting for the winner...

RLB · (#3 (**permalink**))

To put that into perspective, China has 1.2 billon people, just over one sixth of the worlds population.

They have the greater number...........

mike pain · (#4 (**permalink**))

give it time for china to streatch it's muscles...but utilitarian in britain means, that whites would always get priority over other minorties.

no philosophy, science, or religion should be followed as absolute truth....absoluteism leads to extremism....