Given the transient nature of pubescent-targeted close harmony singing about love, and the shame that everyone then has to live with for years afterwards, if one accepts the (not uncontroversial) premise that rule utilitarianism, as the product of experience rather than reaction, is better positioned to judge moral worth over a longer timespan, then we should all agree that such music should be banned, due to not only the negative utility of those expressing a dislike at the time, but also the subsequent pain felt by those who once felt pleasure. However, Mill's Rule Utilitarianism would specify that a rule should be enacted which promotes the greater overall utility, rather than judging each individual act on its utility. Thus, the "tyranny of the majority" allowed by Benthamite utilitarianism strikes again, in the form of the bad boys that young girls love to love. While undoubtedly many horrors have been visited upon the world by "Backstreet's Back" and their ilk, the overtly popular nature of these songs would lead one to believe that the positive utility (when interpreted as 'pleasure') felt by those misguided screaming teenagers almost certainly outweighs the negative utility (when interpreted as 'pain') felt by everyone else, who were largely indifferent, rather than being outright horrified. Mill's Rule Utilitarianism offer differing interpretations of the moral legitimacy of the Backstreet Boys' careers. When faced with such failure inflicted by the invisible hand, governments have no other choice than to invoke a sin tax on the sale of the Backstreet Boys' merchandise.īentham's Act Utilitarianism and J.S. Laissez-faire has failed AJ, Nick, Brian, and the other AJ.
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Since, in the above example, the marginal social cost of the transaction would be greater than the marginal social benefit, we can only come to the conclusion that the free market system fails in regards to pre-teen music. This loss of $5 should be considered a dead weight loss in social welfare, due to the inficted negative externality. Unfortunately, passers-by inadvertently hearing "I Want It That Way" would be be inflicted with roughly negative $5 worth of utility. If a pre-teen were to purchase one of their compact discs for $15, they might reasonably expect to get $15 worth of utility out of said disc. Take, for instance, the trance-inducing harmonies of the sexually ambiguous Backstreet Boys. In economics this would be considered a negative externality. Unfortunately, voluntary exchanges can occur in which external social costs are not taken into account.
Falseness on the level of blue raspberries and Mitt Romney’s tan.Ī guest blog, basic economic theory, it is stated that all exchanges must be mutually beneficial. Destroy foundations of holistic being to achieve… authenticity…. Surely an auto-tuned BellLabs Text to Speech engine would sound roughly the same. Ironically, most true lowbrow listeners find him disposable to the beat, samples and Jorde Laforge sunglasses he has become famous for.
Kanye West is not Kanye West, he is a man Kanye West thought of and made Kanye West. So the trick still works, it just makes less sense. Whereas Descartes implies that you must contemplate rationally all to find the essence of knowing, Kanye has seen fit to remove this pesky rationality and replace it with a cartoonish self-invented conceived, and thus affirmed, falsity.
This Cartesian mind trick has been supplanted by the Kanyeian proof, "I think I am therefore I am". A bit like a magician reaching into his magic hat and pulling his own head through it, this is a circular philosophical argument of the highest order. Simply stated, it implies that a being thinking of its existence thereby affirms this very existence. Rene Descartes is credited with coining this phrase through his seminary work in epistemological thought. "I think therefore I am" is perhaps one of the most known philosophical expressions of all time.
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