Questiоns 19-21 refer tо the pаssаge belоw. III. By utility is meаnt that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness… or to prevent mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community: if a particular individual, then the happiness of that individual… V. It is in vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. A thing is said to promote the interest, or to be for the interest, of an individual, when it tends to add to the sum total of his pleasures: or, what comes to the same thing, to diminish the sum total of his pains… VII. A measure of government…may be said to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it…. Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) Due to the philosophical influence of ideas expressed in the passage, Parliament
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