Bend It Like Bentham

A utilitarianism blog. Bending the truth and distorting the facts of reality so as to conform them with our own set of whims, emotions, faiths and wishes. This blog will take you on a journey through the philosophical musings and inner conflicts of a man entering the world of utilitarianism. We will focus on dissecting the works of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Lastly, we will be exposing Objectivism as the irrational philosophy that it is.

Monday, June 14, 2004

Can't Get My Fill Of John Stuart Mill

But was he a whim-worshipping witch doctor like Ayn Rand? She is that nutty objectivist that thinks people have no right to initiate force against other people, and only have the right to resist or retaliate against the initiation of force. I don't like this because then I have no moral justification for imposing welfare state socialism on people. But Look at what I just read in On Liberty, by Mill:

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.

So men have a natural right to their freedom, and other men have no right to infringe on it? No fair no fair no fair! But I want free stuff, and obtaining that stuff requires enslaving other men! I want free education through grad school, I want free health care, food and other welfare, housing, retirement, a car, a guaranteed job, and luxuries.

Why can't I have those things, J.S. Mill? Why aren't you thinking of the children?

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