FDA regulations killed medical progress by 70% in 1962. Lifespan growth immediately cut in half. Drug development now costs 13 times more.
Utilitarianism
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Every Econ 101 textbook teaches incentives, costs, and second-order effects. Most government policies ignore all three. Like someone passing driver's ed then driving into a lake on purpose.
Saving one cat kills 600 chickens over 15 years. Utilitarianism proves petting your cat is morally worse than euthanizing it.
Americans spend $60 billion on weight loss while ending world hunger costs $30 billion. One group pays to subtract calories, the other needs calories.
Farmed catfish causes 20,000 times more suffering than milk per kg. The math is third grade, but your dinner choices remain catastrophic.
Bentham's felicific calculus quantifies pleasure and pain on a 1-10 scale. Yes, you can mathematically calculate whether you should kill your cat.