Plato and other philosophers disagreed with Bentham in that they:
A. believed some pleasures are more intense than others.
B. believed some pleasures are morally better than others.
C. believed that it makes no sense to say one pleasure is "better" than another.
D. held that one pain cannot be quantitatively different from another.
E. thought the moral character of an action is determined by the results it produces.
Answer: B
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