the French revolution was heavily influenced by him and we all saw how that worked out.
Can you make this a little more explicit? France is a pretty nice place—are you saying that the counterfactual world where there was no revolution would be significantly better?
Sure. I’m asking about the “we all saw how that worked out” portion of your comment. From what I can see, it worked out fairly well. Are you of the opinion that the French Revolution was an obvious and complete utilitarian failure?
Can you make this a little more explicit? France is a pretty nice place—are you saying that the counterfactual world where there was no revolution would be significantly better?
All the guillotining. And the necessity of that was in part justified with reference to Rousseau’s thought
Sure. I’m asking about the “we all saw how that worked out” portion of your comment. From what I can see, it worked out fairly well. Are you of the opinion that the French Revolution was an obvious and complete utilitarian failure?
I haven’t looked that much into French history, just think it is important to acknowledge where that line of thought can end up.