Utilitarianism is choosing the action that promotes the most happiness. This ethical theory is not the same as egoism because instead of thinking about your own happiness, you’d be thinking about the happiness of all. However, many people argue that utilitarianism is too demanding because it requires you to consider everyone’s happiness and do what brings the most happiness to the majority. For example, imagine that you work everyday, live alone and have no family or friends. If you were to give up your paycheck, you would be able to feed a whole family of 5 even if that means you would go hungry. Therefore this means as a utilitarian you would sacrifice your own happiness, so long as it produces more happiness to those 5 individuals. Mill
