Virtues are the minimum and the Greeks set the bar. Greatest number versus greatest happiness is a measure of the State. Individuals are more complicated; the cascading impulses predict behaviour irregardless of the "greater outcome".
Read PostThis is a really helpful hack to see where the blind spots of freedom lie. Some easily accepted as a norm under social contract. "I would gladly give up X for some Y." Yet Y is an artificial question, void of philosophy and punctuated with anticipated future outcomes.
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