Blissfully ignorant or blissfully bookish? As one of history's great moralists claims, wisdom is bliss. Replacing wisdom with ignorance and we come dangerously close to irresponsibility or an inability to respond as an autonomous vessel of epiphenomenal biology.
Read PostVirtues 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".
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