A very good Radio 4 Boring Talk about Jeremy Bentham’s “Auto-Icon” by its (his) curator, in which you will discover that everything you thought you knew about it was wrong: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001j5j6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile #Radio4 #JeremyBentham #Utilitarianism

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” #JeremyBentham