If you looked at non-consequentialist ideologies that was contemporaneous with Bentham, so many of them advocated for policy positions that we now consider evil.
Nor are non-ideological people immune. Plenty of “ordinary men” do evil things when people around them do.
If you looked at non-consequentialist ideologies that was contemporaneous with Bentham, so many of them advocated for policy positions that we now consider evil.
Nor are non-ideological people immune. Plenty of “ordinary men” do evil things when people around them do.
Thomas Carlyle coined the term “dismal science” to argue in favor of slavery, against people like Mill and other economics-minded utilitarians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science