Full Idea
Utilitarian benevolence involves no particular attachments, and it is immune to the inverse square law.
Clarification
It doesn't fade quickly over a distance, the way gravity does
Gist of Idea
Utilitarian benevolence involves no particular attachments, and is immune to the inverse square law
Source
Bernard Williams (Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy [1985], Ch. 5)
Book Reference
Williams,Bernard: 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy' [Fontana 1985], p.81
A Reaction
Nicely put. The point is that the theory is inhuman, but Mill says it tells us what we should do, not what we actually tend to do.