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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (38 children)

He should read some Kant and Hume.

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

Reason is and ought only to be a slave to the passions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (20 children)

I don't think they'd find that very insightful.

It's plain hedonism. I'm sure they're familiar with the idea.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Hedonism is obviously the best ethical theory. Bentham had the right idea

[–] yetiftw 4 points 4 days ago

I mean it's the only one that explains why we actually do anything at all

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