3. Mill’s Argument
a. “If I apprehend the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually do desire it . . . . No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only al the proof which the case admits of, but all which is possible ti require, that happiness is a good: that each person’s happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.” (Utilitarianism, ch. IV)
