Mill said it's better to be an unhappy human than a happy pig

John Stuart Mill tried to rescue utilitarianism from the charge that it reduces morality to simple pleasure-seeking by arguing that some pleasures are qualitatively higher than others. Intellectual and moral pleasures count for more than bodily ones, he claimed, because anyone who has experienced both kinds would always choose the higher, even at the cost of some comfort.

— John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism — 1863
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