John Stuart Mill proposed the idea of utilitarianism and wrote many writings on the subject. He had a very specific idea of utilitarianism, he wrote the book called Utilitarianism and it consisted of 5 chapters each going into depth on a subject within the ideology. Mill has many point in defense of the basic idea of this part of philosophy. While he makes some compelling points the primary stance of the greatest good is essentially flawed and cannot be an actual idea of human moral standards. The greatest good is not a qualified ideal to follow throughout the entirety of the world. This idea is also known as the ends justify the means. Under this there are no limits. We could do anything we wanted and justify it by saying it is for the greater
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Everything is decided by how much happiness the actions make. It doesn’t matter whether that is healthy, the most happiness at all times. The problem with this idea is humanity has a horrible past of doing anything for happiness. This is an elusive concept and is talked about in the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 17:9 states that, “the heart is deceitful above all things who can know it?” This is important because what makes us happy is not always the best thing to do. Sometimes making hard decisions can be very unpopular and not cause happiness. An example of this is seen everywhere especially in America. The average American thinks that the deserve happiness and will do anything to get it. This causes sexual disease, debt, and poor political figures. Most Americans think that their happiness should be now. So they can have many sexual partners to satisfy the now need rather than wait for marriage or at least keep a single partner. Debt is a huge problem nationwide, it is because people can’t wait to have what they want now. So the result is indebted people in an indebted government and the people who want to fix this mess are never voted into office because they want change and want to restrict what we think is making us happy. America is more utilitarian then they would like to admit. People want happiness now and the greatest number will do anything to get
Everything is decided by how much happiness the actions make. It doesn’t matter whether that is healthy, the most happiness at all times. The problem with this idea is humanity has a horrible past of doing anything for happiness. This is an elusive concept and is talked about in the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 17:9 states that, “the heart is deceitful above all things who can know it?” This is important because what makes us happy is not always the best thing to do. Sometimes making hard decisions can be very unpopular and not cause happiness. An example of this is seen everywhere especially in America. The average American thinks that the deserve happiness and will do anything to get it. This causes sexual disease, debt, and poor political figures. Most Americans think that their happiness should be now. So they can have many sexual partners to satisfy the now need rather than wait for marriage or at least keep a single partner. Debt is a huge problem nationwide, it is because people can’t wait to have what they want now. So the result is indebted people in an indebted government and the people who want to fix this mess are never voted into office because they want change and want to restrict what we think is making us happy. America is more utilitarian then they would like to admit. People want happiness now and the greatest number will do anything to get