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..In What I Believe you put forward the criterion that should underlie moral rules: a human act is "good" if through it the total amount of human happiness increases. This supposes however the existence of a measure for human happiness. There are of course cases in which it is easy to decide which of two alternative situations contains most happiness, but the existence of a general standard is not obvious to me....

Dear Mr Van Leuven, ( January 26, 1963 )
When I say that an act is 'good' if it increases human happiness, I do not imply a general standard for human happi ness. I mean to say that 'good' ought to be understood by people as the pursuit of human happiness; as for what constitutes that happiness, that is a matter for continued social debate. We will be wrong and circumstances will alter what is required for human happiness. Nonetheless, the pursuit of it, as we each conceive it to be, is the proper ethical task. ...
Yours sincerely
Bertrand Russell
Source: Dear Bertrand Russell, 1969 More info.: https://russell-j.com/beginner/DBR4-08.HTM