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To: FReethesheeples

"In a nutshell, Roberts argued that impacts to property owners must be balanced against the utility of the regulation "in a way that tilts almost every time in the government's favor."

I hate the word utility.

Screw that commie Millsian crap.


23 posted on 08/19/2005 9:05:54 PM PDT by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: adam_az

I hadn't thought of John Stuart Mill as a commie unitl you mentioned it just now. I suppose there are "dialectical" & even Marxist implications of "utilitarianism."

;^)

After all, aren't "needs" the rough equivalent of "happiness" or in the later ulilitarian's terms: "Utils." ("Utils" were defined as "Units of happiness" or "Units of pleasure," as I recall.)(sp?)


28 posted on 08/19/2005 9:11:44 PM PDT by FReethesheeples (Was the Narcissistic Joe Wilson a Source in "Outing" His Own Wife Valerie Plame as a "CIA Agent"?)
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To: adam_az

What's commie about utility?


36 posted on 08/19/2005 9:30:57 PM PDT by ExitPurgamentum
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