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anyway soā utilitarianism was founded by Bentham, the inventor of the Panopticon and he encouraged his friend (follower), the father of John Stuart Mill, to isolate the child from other kids, and John ended up depressed and suicidal interesting https://t.co/5qtZsMvW2o
Mill is a "the family is the cloister" eg ā which I think is ~somewhat~ limits the damage still, suicidal & depressed at 20, I wonder why š¤ > asked himself whether the creation of a just society would actually make him happy. His heart answered "no" https://t.co/ivvaErfzRs https://t.co/GMmTNVOjsn
smart people can be so fucking stupid https://t.co/PnFcHbRFQK
went looking for the original quote from Mill > And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me he goes on to describe how it was the work of artists and poets that lifted his spirit https://t.co/id5rkewyEn https://t.co/hvQHzMRNWA
Mill, on Roebuck: "Personally, instead of being, as Benthamites are supposed to be, void of feeling, he had very quick and strong sensibilities. But, like most Englishmen who have feelings, he found his feelings stand very much in his way."