 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Suppose I am a small boy who has been secretly given twelve chocolates, and I have eleven companions who have been given none. I may have such limited desires that I surreptitiously eat all the twelve myself, in which case each gives me less satisfaction than the one before, and the last perhaps hardly any. Or I may be so filled with benevolence that I give one to each of my companions, and eat only one myself. In that case, each chocolate gives as much satisfaction as the first one gave in the other case, and the total of satisfaction is greater than in the other case. Therefore the benevolent boy causes more of the good to exist than is caused by the selfish boy. This illustrates how some desires minister more to the general good than other desires do.
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