Word: disutilitarian
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...drive to increase executive authority, at Harvard he wrote that a philosophy of adherence to the sovereign abrogated the right to disobey “bad laws.” “Benthamism cannot even provide us with a basis for disobedience of the type that would make disutilitarian bad law void,” Chertoff wrote. “Even if a sovereign enacts a law that goes against the interests of the majority, a consistent utilitarian may not always be justified in disregarding it.” Bentham’s philosophy of placing more power...
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