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    A student is making the best decision by studying for an exam rather than going to a party, even though studying sacrifices short-term pleasure

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    • 1.Doing well in school leads to long-term pleasures that score higher in duration and magnitude than the short-term pleasure of attending a party
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    • 2.Studying has high fecundity — it leads to further pleasures beyond the immediate reward
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    • 3.On Bentham's calculus, the quantitatively superior outcome is the correct choice
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    • 1.Bentham's calculus assumes future pleasures can be reliably quantified and compared, but radical uncertainty about outcomes undermines cardinal utility comparisons.
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    • 2.The student cannot know whether exam performance will causally produce the assumed long-term pleasures, making the calculus speculative rather than action-guiding.
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    • 3.Rule utilitarianism (Mill) would evaluate the general practice of studying, not this instance, and that rule may produce worse aggregate outcomes than flexible social engagement.
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    • 1.Mill's qualitative distinction between higher and lower pleasures entails that the pleasure of genuine social flourishing may rank above rote academic performance.
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    • 2.Aristotelian eudaimonism, which influenced utilitarian critics like Bradley, holds that philia and communal participation are constitutive of the good, not merely instrumental to it.
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    • 3.If social bonds are intrinsically valuable rather than merely productive of future utility, sacrificing them cannot be straightforwardly offset by projected academic gains.
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    It should be noted, however, that Mill was offering this as an alternative to Bentham's view which had been itself criticized as a ‘swine morality,’ locating the good in pleasure in a kind of indiscriminate way. The distinctions he makes strike many as intuitively plausible ones. Bentham, however, can accommodate many of the same intuitions within his system. This is because he notes that there are a variety of parameters along which we quantitatively measure pleasure — intensity and duration
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