animals. This assertion is in an answer to criticisms that utilitarianism attempts to compare things of far different attributes and levels. These same critics argue that the computational methods that are used to place a value on specific pleasures is an artifice that bears no genuine function since it is essentially impossible to compare things that have no like attributes. It is additionally difficult to assign such value on things that are fundamentally subjective. Not only these facts, but the idea of pleasure in all things necessarily cheapens the intellectual or spiritual elements that are inherently present within higher pleasurable activities. In other words, viewing the Mona Lisa could be compared to the same level of pleasure, or utility, as eating a piece of fine European chocolate. There is hardly any spirituality or i
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