John Stuart Mill on Justice and Utility

Let's take a closer look at Mill's case against non-utilitarian standards of justice.

My view on John Stuart Mill is that (a) he was a brilliant writer and thinker who got many things right and (b) his position on the nature of morality was deeply misguided. Maybe, to raise this to the level of hot take, that core commitment to utilitarianism was a bit of childhood brainwashing he never quite got over and he thus had to waste a lot of ti…