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Inviolability and Utilitarianism

Filed under: Ethics, Politics — Lemony at 3:38 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Bit of a long one this. Below the fold is the full text of an essay I wrote for my ethics module last semester which I got a first for. It has various issues which i should probably resolve before publishing it but i decided instead to present the text as i submitted it.

In the interests of self-deprecation I must call attention to the fact that this is pretty shamefully badly written, capitalisations are missed, spelling and grammar mistakes are abundant, the whole last paragraph got left in from an early draft and has nothing to do with the rest of the essay. That said, don’t think it was a bad first attempt at philosophical writing and I still agree with most of the arguments I put forward. Anyhow, you can either read on or download the text as a pdf.

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