Utilitarianism Essay On Child Labour

Nowadays, many people started concern on child labour because it is a global problem that everyone need to take it seriously. Child labour is mean that some factory or restaurant employed a child who are not attend the age of majority, pay them low salary and arrange the difficult and demanding task to the child which they cannot effort, this act is unmoral. Based on the consequentialist theory, whether the action is right or wrong is depend on the outcome of the action. Utilitarianism theory is arguing the employed child labour is a morally action, don’t have any harmful toward other people and the child instead this action is helping them to improve their living standard. Utilitarianism is talk about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number, the morally right action is the act will provide the maximize good. Mostly the child labour are from the poverty family, usually not enough money to buy daily necessities like food, water and cloth so they become child labour due to help out with the family expenses, it brings benefit to …show more content…
Their parent should apply a job to handle the family expenses rather than child labour is the way to cope with expenses problem. Everyone have right to choose which ethics they believe; this is up to you. In a situation has two facts or more than two to understand. There have several ways to guide how human begins ought to behave, no matter what ethics you believe, just don’t harm other or decision maker will always be the right action. When you follow the utilitarianism theory to control your act but not all the people are agree with this theory. Some of them feel that happiness is totally enough to make a decision while other think no matter what reason we can’t break the rule. If the government kill terrorist can save