Jeremy Bentham and Animal Rights

[Anonymous No.15296389]

>The Anti-utility Revolution has been a disaster for the biological race.
Discuss Jeremy Bentham's environmentalism and extension of rights beyond the human.

[Anonymous No.15296857]

First tell me why you refuse to use a painting of Bentham.

[Anonymous No.15296864]

I cannot imagine a more boring and dry philosopher.

[Anonymous No.15296870]

>>15296857
No need, he's still around.

[Anonymous No.15296876]

>>15296864
JS Mills is 100x worse.

[Anonymous No.15296887]

>>15296857

[Anonymous No.15296892]

>>15296887
Too soon.

[Anonymous No.15297054]

>>15296857

[Anonymous No.15297092]

>>15296389
What the fuck are you talking about, if we have learned anything from this pandemic is that utilitarianism is a garbage ethical theory. Though that shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who knows some philosophy.

[Anonymous No.15297144]

>>15297092
How so? He literally predicted this,
"The canker-worm of uncertainty, naturally the peculiar growth and plague of the unwritten law, insinuates itself thus into the body, and preys upon the vitals of the written."

[Anonymous No.15297177]

>>15297144
Based
u/acc panoptichad

[Anonymous No.15297280]

Chads are stealing the Auto-icon.

[Anonymous No.15297305]

>>15296389
Animals have no rights. To extend "rights" to animals is stupid. If animals are domestic, they are property. Owners are responsible for their care and it should be "humane". But this whole animals rights thing is part of he slippery slope toward Hitler's vegetarianism and Nazism.

[Anonymous No.15297401]

>We have seen above the grounds on which the general rule in this behalf—Be quiet—rests. Whatever measures, therefore, cannot be justified as exceptions to that rule, may be considered as non agenda on the part of government. The art, therefore, is reduced within a small compass: security and freedom are all that industry requires. The request which agriculture, manufactures, and commerce present to governments, is modest and reasonable as that which Diogenes made to Alexander: “Stand out of my sunshine.” We have no need of favour—we require only a secure and open path.
Holy BASED.

[Anonymous No.15297935]

A toast, to the auto-icon!

[Anonymous No.15297985]

>>15297092
>utilitarianism
>ethical theory

Yes, making decisions based on emotional virtue pandering which sacrifice the livelihoods and progress of the multitude and the civilization itself for the sake of a very small minority of that multitude is clearly the better option. Mr Spock couldn't be more wrong. The needs of the few far outweigh the needs of the many. And you can even scuttle entire fields of economic, academic, scientific, and social progress endeavors at the same time! I for one welcome our new dark age brought on by knee jerking to a virus with a 3% mortality rate. Whole sectors of world economic development may be delayed for decades but hey if it keeps first world grandmother's alive a couple extra years let's go for it. Economic shrinkage means delay and reduction on huge scales for humanitarian and environmental change projects that only survive on the extra day left over after western society finds it self. Oh well! We signalled our entitled virtues so hard that we stopped the flow of aid to those who need it most so that we could vainly try and save those who are most likely to die anyway. Nothing should stand in the way of human progress and economic growth. Least of all some 3%.

[Anonymous No.15298008]

>>15297985
Bentham was right. We need to open up the economy.

[Anonymous No.15298206]

Heil Utility. Heil Bentham.

[Anonymous No.15298569]

>>15296389
Rights don't exist in the first place.

[Anonymous No.15299165]

>>15298569
They are required for utility

[Anonymous No.15299537]

[Anonymous No.15300235]

u/acc assemble.

[Anonymous No.15300334]

>>15297092
Are you retarded?