John Stuart Mill believed that the outcome of an action is what determines if it is right or wrong; if a person’s actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness (Scalet & Arthur, n.d.). Mill believed that we must strive to promote happiness in general, not valuing our own happiness more than others (Schefczyk, n.d.). Although his theory seems to be for the good of everyone’s happiness, it also seems to imply that as long as the ends justify the means, than the action is right. Mill’s viewpoint reminds me of my son’s basketball team where a father felt that his son was better suited for a certain position which a smaller child had. He convinced the coach to trade positions
