To quote Mill again,
When thus attacked, the Epicureans have always answered, that it is not they, but their accusers, who represent human nature in a degrading light; since the accusation supposes human beings to be capable of no pleasures except those of which swine are capable. If this supposition were true, the charge could not be gainsaid, but would then be no longer an imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the rule of life which is good enough for the one would be good enough for the other. The comparison of the Epicurean life to that of beasts is felt as degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness.
Alternatively,
In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility.
I could do this all day. Making thoughtful, provocative and devastating backroom comments has never been easier.
ho ho hoSkullheadhq, I did not expect to meet someone like you on this side of the millennium.
Bookmarks