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Utilitarianism
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is the ethical theory that all actions should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. This objection is also considered the aim of all legislation and is the ultimate criterion of all social institutions.
Philosopher John Mill responds to an objection ....
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....an individual. He quotes, “ there is nothing in the utilitarian theory inconsistent with the fact that there are other things which interest us in a person besides the rightness and wrongness of their actions.”
An example, of Mill’s response to his theory is, if an individual is caught up in the wrong crowd and is caught stealing, and the person is truly sorry for the crime that he or she has committed and is a well rounded person, than he or she should not be looked upon as a destructive indivi.... |
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