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John Stuart Mill: “To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
Stephen Hicks: “Unless one is a masochist.”
(Image by Roland Topor, 1960.)
Related: John Stuart Mill’s great work on liberty of thought and expression:
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