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Comment author: CronoDAS 30 November 2011 09:51:48AM 2 points [-]

A society that lives by utilitarian principles would be better than any possible society that doesn't.

That would depend a lot on how different people's utility is weighted. As Mel Brooks put it, "It's good to be the king."