Benthamite Hedonic Act-utilitarianism,
– Does your private, immediate insight into and disapproval of your pain argue for and so require not only a concern for others and their pain, but a wholly disinterested moral point of view?
– What other examples (besides handicapped parking) show how utilitarianism is not majoritarian?
– What, if anything, do you find problematic in the Felix/”utility monster” case?
– If Bentham’s hedonic understanding of utility is correct, ought the engineer be working exclusively towards those technologies whose material culture amounts to a maximization of “pleasure center” neural matter being permanently hyperstimulated by drugs designed to and on a schedule that undercuts any possible tolerance?
