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    Supports→Social inequalities that are no longer considered expedient are not merely inexpedient but unjust

    Social inequalities that persist without justification in expedience violate the equal claim of persons to happiness

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    It [impartiality] is involved in the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person’s happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another’s. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham’s dictum ‘everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,’ might be written under the principle of utility as an explanatory commentary. Th

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