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Utilitarianism and drugs in sport : Comments
By Simon Smart, published 1/5/2013'Greatest happiness' arguments can lead to immoral decisions which an individual can justify to themself.
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Human beings are intrinsically driven to obtain/achieve pleasure. Indeed everything we do is motivated by that urge, even the seemingly most ordinary day to day repetitive habits, to say nothing of the most bizarre even self-destructive habits and actions.
But unbridled utilitarianism has always been the dominant "ethic" exercised by Christians and dramatized by them on to the world stage. As pictured and described in these references.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel21.html
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/cruelty.html
Also Google
Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack Forbes
The American Holocaust by David Stannard
God Is Red & Custer Died For Your Sins by Vive Deloria Jnr.
Then of course there was/is what is described here - the politics of cruelty 101
http://www.logosjournal.com/hammer_kellner
http://www.vaticancrimes.us
Plus every cultural and tribal group has always used a range of intoxicants and mind-altering substances - such is an indelible aspect of the human condition. It is a well known principle of the human psyche that when there is wide-spread repression of the pleasure-principle either individually or collectively then what is repressed will "return" in aberrated forms, including at the collective level wars of conquest and cruelty.