Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamont which is most conducive to studying. Lamont is a no-nonsense, no frills library. There are but a handful of cushy chairs; only the most minimal carpeting is used. Lamont is built from concrete and starkly adorned with linoleum floors and metal bookcases. It's a utilitarian box which has the slogan "Glue your butt to the chair" etched into its walls. Lamont provides students with the serious study space which undergraduates welcome as their necessary refuge...
...anger and embarrassment than guilt or remorse. It establishes a behavioral pattern based on fear and the primitive aversion to pain rather than a rational understanding of the child's actions and its consequences, Supporters claim that, for whatever reason, corporal punishment works in halting negative behavior. While this utilitarian perspective may have a certain puritan appeal, it hardly seems like reason enough to teach children we don't have to work out problems with other people, especially if they are weaker than us. All we have to do is use our belts, rather than our heads...
...absolutely right. All laws, even the most innocuous and widely accepted ones, reflect a certain subjective worldview. All laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature. To say that human beings have a right to life that must be respected, or to say (as a utilitarian might) that we should recognize a right to life in order to maximize societal utility, is already to take a moral stance that does not lie beyond dispute...
Leaster, a former death row convict who was incarcerated for fifteen years before he was acquitted at a retrial, dismissed both the moral and utilitarian arguments for the death penalty...
...when moral and religious arguments have unfortunately fallen by the wayside, this argument is an important one to make. For people who refuse to accept the immorality of homosexuality, a utilitarian argument that addresses the possible consequences of homosexual acts may have more persuasive power. Just because a valid argument is presented in a controversial or arguably sensationalist manner does not take away its legitimacy...