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theorists. Yet, is John Stuart Mills version practical enough to be utilized as a standard for exercising morality in society? Is the principle too idealistic to be
of much use to people? In Mills well known work, the author delves into moral theory and suggests that the schools of thought go to intuitive and inductive reasoning,
for which the author embraces the latter. To Mill, happiness is the substance to be measured to determine whether or not something is right or wrong. The litmus test
is whether or not actions promote happiness or not. Mill is essentially a consequentialist as he claims that abiding by some rule does not promote happiness. Yet, Mill does
not support the idea in the hedonistic sense. Rather, Mill explores happiness in a different manner as he contends that people find happiness in doing the right thing and also
that there is intrinsic knowledge about what it is humans should do to attain happiness. Mill above all does not treat the subject of "pleasure" lightly and has an answer
for every objection. For example, some may equate his philosophy with hedonism, but Mill truly believes that man can choose pleasure wisely. He explains: "Men lose their high aspirations as
they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging in them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but
because they are the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying" (Mill, 1998, p.141). It is the same
idea that nutritionists have in respect to dieting and deprivation. Some claim that if an individual has access to a lot of "forbidden" foods, they will not crave them as
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