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Old 05-06-2005, 05:22 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Bentham also supported that man's nature are always based on pleasure and pain, and the utility was the best course of action for government, that which makes the most people happy. Seeing how Bush won the popular vote this time around, I could argue using Bentham that outlawing abortion would make the most people happy, could I not?????

Doesn't the actions of the firefighters on 9/11 also disprove his theory on human nature???
So if he is wrong on that account I tend to think that perhaps he is wrong concerning rationality. Something sets the human race apart from the animals, I believe that it is our self-respect and self-discipline.

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Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk-