... decisions, there are units of measurements for pleasure, a hedon, and pain, a dolor (people.umass.edu). Jeremy Bentham (1789) defined the aspects of hedons and dolors: intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extension to others. The final aspect, extension to others, is important, because otherwise hedonism would justify such things as rape and murder Hedonism's effectiveness can be put to the ... test through thought experiments. A popular thought experiment is the happy sadist. In this thought experiment there are two universes that are exactly the same. Th...

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