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Originally posted by hobbes@21 January 2004 - 03:18
Out of my league here, but you may want to consider "utilitarian philosphers". These folks believed that "rightness" was determined by outcome. What could bring happines to the most people.
You could justify human experiments to better understand disease, as the experiments, although cruel to the subjects, would provide information that would bring a greater happiness to a society.
This is in essense an "ends justifying the means" philosophy.
My dusty memories of a class in which people created chaos out of order.
Are you suggesting that the Raj brought happiness to most people ? Or that it could be argued ?