The Consequences Of Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong when looking at the outcomes. It believes that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number. Consequentialism is found in utilitarianism; consequentialism is largely thought about during war. When you fight for your life in war, you end up taking another person's life. While this may be good for your country, it is hurting a different country.

The New World is Aldous Huxley’s description of a utopia governed by its motto, “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley, 15). A society deprived of any human characteristic deemed dangerous towards the stability of the society. Human beings fertilized in bottles; identity, gender, intelligence, position in society, all controlled by the government. Citizens beings classified in the order of hierarchy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Every possible technology at the disposal of the World Controller is used to ensure social stability and increase happiness amongst their citizens.

“To wing your course along the middle air; if low the surges wet your flagging plumes; if high, the sun the melting wax consumes”. This is the advice that Daedalus, the inventor from a renowned Greek myth, gave to his son Icarus when he was about to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father made. In order to control his wings, Icarus had to keep a constant distance between the sun and his wings. However, he eventually disregarded his father’s warning and filled with the exhilaration of flying. With the greed to fly as high as he could, he flew too high and too close to the sun.

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that focuses on outcomes and consequences. When one considers the theory of utilitarianism, it must be understood that the pleasure is a fundamental moral good and the aim is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. So, when a human is going through the decision making process it is of the utmost importance to look forward at the consequences of the decision and determine if the decision will maximize pleasure and minimize pain. John Stuart Mill, a nineteenth century philosopher focused on the theory of utilitarianism or the Greatest Happiness Principle and claimed that the maximization of happiness for the greatest quantity of people is the ultimate goal. One issue that we face in modern day America that

Like machines, they are fully controlled. That is why they cannot act in a different way they are not allowed to. Any disturbance of identity may lead to the breach of the ‘peace’ and stability, it may endanger public security. Such is the truth of the ‘Brave New World’. It represents a disturbing, loveless and even ominous place.

The flaws of utilitarianism lie in the possibility of measuring the utility of different behaviors as well, i.e., it is difficult to compare the utility of certain actions. Everybody’s subjective judgment on utilitarianism is possibly to be different. In the case of torture for suspects, when people from different cultural backgrounds, and different educational environment determine the utility, they will possibly make very different judgements. More importantly, measure ‘utilitarian’ with a similar unit of money may result the abandon of moral and human rights. If you think justice means, happiness maximization, pain minimization, then you are likely to support the Robin Hood type of robbing the rich to feed to poor.

The morality of an action is determined by the outcome of that action. At an initial glance, Utilitarianism seems as if it would be a superior way to live a life full of good will, as it is focused on doing the most

Trolley Problem- week2 “Utilitarianism -A consequentialist ethical theory that holds that morally right actions, laws, or policies are those whose consequences contain the greatest positive value and least negative value compared to the consequences of available alternatives. (Thames, 2018.). " With this being said do we really believe its okay to sacrifice the greater good of a person, meaning to kill five and save one?

Brave new world - Essay I look at this from a utilitarian perspective were the moral thing is to do the most good for the most amount of people. The individual, while important in any sense, is only relevant in terms of the community as a whole. It is very similar to the question of individual versus collective happiness. The happiness of the most amount of people is better than letting the individual decide for oneself.

Utilitarianism believes that the rightness or wrongness of an action is completely based on just the consequences of the action. Utilitarianism can be defined at its core as the belief that choices should be made for the greatest benefit for the greatest number of people. A real life example of utilitarianism can be seen in the story of the wreck of the Mignonette. In 1884, a crew of four men were stranded at sea over 700 miles away from the nearest land when the ship they were

The utilitarianism is common approach to make ethical decisions. The main point of this approach is that you have to make that decision which comes with the most utility. The utility in this approach can be described as „The good”, and the opposite of this is „the bad”. This means that in Computer Science you have to produce a computer programme or a hardware, which produces the largest amount of good , and during the producing phase, it makes the least amount of bad, for all who are affected: customers, employees, and even the enviroment. With the utilitarian viewpoint people can make right, and ethical decisions, for instance if you produce a programme which can make life easier for millions of people, you should not sell it for extremly

From a utilitarian perspective, the ‘greater good’ may be believed to be the greatest amount of profit, potentially leading to a ruthless attempt to maximise income. This could come in the form of using cheap labour to be able to create maximum profit for the shareholders – and, furthermore, could end up blatantly disregarding human rights. This is a major issue of utilitarianism – basing ethical decisions on goodness for the greatest number of people allows for a

Suppose a conductor is driving his train and the breaks are defect. The rails lead directly into a cluster of five people who would all die if the train will go this direction. However, the conductor can change onto another track where only one person is standing hence only one person would die. How should the conductor react (Hare, 1964)? Is it possible to condense the problem to a rather simple maximization problem in example that the action is taken, which would kill the least people?

The main principle of utilitarianism is happiness. People who follow this theory strive to fulfill the “ultimate good”. The “ultimate good” is defined as ultimate pleasure with out any pain. It is said that the pleasure can be of any quantity and any quality, but pleasures that are weighted more important are put at a higher level than others that are below it. This ethical theory also states that if society would fully embrace utilitarianism then people would naturally realize their moral standing in the

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