How Does John Stuart Mill Create Happiness

In most societies, such as the American society, people dream to be happy and to have pleasure. John Stuart Mill explained that every person wants pleasure in utility. Utility creates happiness through pleasure is what every person wants. The higher amount of utility a person receives, the more pleasure he or she will get. The more pleasure a person gains, the better life he or she will have. When asked questioned about morality, Mill explains that the right and moral thing to do is to do something that produces the most utility, even if it goes past someone's own personal beliefs. One example of utility is by the term, “white lies”. When people say a white lie, they are not telling the whole truth because they feel that the receiver would …show more content…
If Mill’s doctrine was correct, then Neo and the rest of the people who found out would be morally obligated to let the matrix go on and fool the world. The group decides that it is not moral to keep the lie going, but it is immoral. The reason they decided that it was immoral to keep people in the Matrix is because the civilians unwillingly live a life that is not the reality. The civilians are being tricked, but they have no idea. The resistance decided to end the matrix, and thus ending the fake everyday life that people are living. The group in the matrix know that the civilians will probably lose utility after awakening, but they explained that a fake life of perfection is a more horrible fate than a real life in a post-apocalyptic world. The rebel group and Neo believed that it was unfair for the civilians to not know of what has been happening to the world. The civilians were being tricked, and that trickery will not allow them to live a true, happy life. Mill’s theory would explain that freeing the people would have less utility than letting them stay within the Matrix. The group and their mission is the direct opposite of Mill’s