“It is surprising to see such a warm, mushy idea – brotherly love – grow out of a word as cold and clinical as “utilitarianism”. But it shouldn’t be. Brotherly love is implicit in the standard formulations of utilitarianism – maximum total happiness, the greatest good for the greatest number. In other words: everyone’s happiness counts equally; you are not privileged, and you shouldn’t act as if you are.”

— Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (1994), p. 336