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Seriously, what other metric is better than "promoting the general welfare"? Isn't that exactly what governments should be doing?
by 3131s 9y ago
Seriously, what other metric is better than "promoting the general welfare"? Isn't that exactly what governments should be doing?
- muninn_ 9y agoWell, it's not even a metric, so that's the first issue. Second, I'm not a utilitarian. But the issue with it, for me, lies in the ambiguity of what "general welfare" means. If you have a bunch of people driving cars, building stupid highways might promote the general welfare even though we should build bike paths and sidewalks instead.