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    The Classical Utilitarians, Bentham and Mill, developed their theory to reform useless and corrupt laws and social practices of their time. They believed that the key to reform was establishing a normative ethical theory that could critically assess what makes actions and policies morally right. In developing this theory, they were influenced by their views of what was wrong in their own society. For example, Bentham believed that bad laws were bad because they lacked utility and tended to cause unhappiness without creating happiness to compensate.

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    The Classical Approach

    The Classical Utilitarians, Bentham and Mill, were concerned with legal and social reform. If anything
    could be identified as the fundamental motivation behind the development of Classical Utilitarianism it
    would be the desire to see useless, corrupt laws and social practices changed. Accomplishing this goal
    required a normative ethical theory employed as a critical tool. What is the truth about what makes an
    action or a policy a morally good one, or morally right? But developing the theory itself was also
    influenced by strong views about what was wrong in their society. The conviction that, for example,
    some laws are bad resulted in analysis of why they were bad. And, for Jeremy Bentham, what made
    them bad was their lack of utility, their tendency to lead to unhappiness and misery without any
    compensating happiness. If a law or an action doesn't do any good, then it isn't any good.

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