"There is no difficulty in proving any ethical standard whatever to work ill, if we suppose universal idiocy to be conjoined with it; but on any hypothesis short of that, mankind must by this time have acquired positive beliefs as to the effects of some actions on their happiness" - John Stuart Mill
Sunday, April 17, 2005
19th century sarcasm
I don't know about you guys, but I really like the way this guy writes . . .
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
i love john mill's writing .. i remember reading about him in economics in high school (had to do something about elephants).
oh, i see you're also a trek fan - it's too bad that 'enterprise' may be the last in the spin-off .. the last series i made any attention to was 'voyager' with janeway. just seems like the quality just kept getting worst. i think 'enterprise' and 'ds9' were the worst series, i can't recall any of the characters (ok, maybe the first trill .. but that's it).
Post a Comment