You wouldn't really expect--would you?--that all those neo-utilitarians
(read, ethical egoists) would actually take the time and effort to apply
Bentham's variables for "Measuring A Lot of Pleasure and Pain" (intensity,
certainty, fecundity, propinquity, and all that)? Maybe Microsoft will
write some software....

Keith


>Dan's observations about "measurements" confirm my belief that we are in a
>philosophically positivistic milieu--numbers and measurement determine
>everything.  It's not good, but there you have it.  Well done, Dan.
>                       Bruce Fisher
>
...Forest lands are cut, stripped, gardens and farmland
>>bulldozed and paved to make room for the new Wal Mart and the Home Depot
>>monster stores.   And already even the new roads are congested at busy
>>times.  All hail the capitalistic system!
>>
>>Is this what we have to look forward to, for another 300 years?   And I say,
>>it cannot go on like this!  Fulminate!
>>
>>Dan Warner
>>
>>


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