Talk:Gratification

On July 28th this page was nominated for VfD. The result was unanimous keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gratification. Redwolf24 01:36, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

The survey link can be moved to references

The survey link mentioned in the last paragraph seems to be for good research. But, it provides very general feedback. The link seems more like an advertisement. I think we can do away with the link. Or, include it in the references than the main article itself.

--AmolNil (talk) 11:25, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. That paragraph does not seem to fit in the article.

-- Tiktuk (talk) 10:23, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Get rid of "examples"

I move to get rid of these two sentences:

This focus may be due in part to the influence of utilitarianism, the consequentialist belief that morality can be measured by the overall yield of happiness (utility) that results from a particular action. One example of a significant influence of this theory is the importance of cost-benefit analysis in Western economic theory.

The first is only a common misunderstanding of utilitarianism ("greatest satisfaction to greatest number" says nothing about now vs. later). The second sounds extremely speculative and I can't imagine how one would go about citing a reference.

Some mention of utilitarianism and CBA might belong in this article, but as it stands now it adds nothing.

Merc64 (talk) 14:57, 15 March 2009 (UTC)