Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher that was best known his beliefs in right and wrong being judged by the amount of happiness in a person. He had an optimistic outlook on many pressing issues at the time he was alive, as he wanted to abolish slavery, outlaw the death penalty, and do away with physical punishment.
The answer that would best fit this description of Bentham is "<span>laws should be judged by whether they bring more pleasure than pain".</span>
The oldest of eight children, Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her parents, who were very active in the Republican Party during Reconstruction, died in a yellow fever epidemic in the late 1870s. Wells attended Rust College and then became a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly after she arrived, Wells was involved in an altercation with a white conductor while riding the railroad. She had purchased a first-class ticket, and was seated in the ladies car when the conductor ordered her to sit in the Jim Crow (i.e. black) section, which did not offer first-class accommodations. She refused and when the conductor tried to remove her, she "fastened her teeth on the back of his hand." Wells was ejected from the train, and she sued. She won her case in a lower court, but the decision was reversed in an appeals court.
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