“Utilitarianism is the ethical doctrine that the moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all persons.”- Wikipedia. This means that a person should do everything in his power to achieve ultimate bliss. Good is what brings happiness to most people in the world. This principle is based on decisions that human kind makes. These decisions are based of benefit, with complete disregard to the consequences. Mill states that people, instead of choosing based on personal gain, will decide for the betterment of everyone. Mill considers human beings to posses the gift of conscious thought, therefore given the ability to choose correctly
There were some moral problems that Mill ran into with his principle. One of the first problems was that actions are right to promote happiness, but wrong as they sometimes tend to produce unhappiness. By moving a victim from a mangled car would......
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