s considered as well as quantity, the estimation of pleasure should be supposed to depend on quantity alone (Mill, 1871).
It is also important to include the idea that Utilitarian happiness and pleasure is not just concerned with "the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned"--in other words, society. Mill notes that he is not talking about mass society, since most people come in contact with a limited number of others. However, he does make the point that when people care only about their own happiness and not the happiness of others around them (such as by getting drunk or not "abstaining"), that shows how impossible the happiness of all would be to achieve if everyo
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