In act utilitarianism, you must perform acts that will create the highest overall amount of utility. Furthermore, in rule utilitarianism, one must follow the rules that will produce the greatest overall amount of utility. The position, called act utilitarianism is the first and most common version of utilitarianism and says that we should look at the consequences of each individual action when attempting to determine its moral worth. In contrast, rule utilitarianism lies in the fact that utilitarianism is looking at the consequences of each individual action. One of the principal attractions of act utilitarianism is that it deals with individual decisions on a case-by-case basis. There is no such thing as an exemption from the act utilitarian
