Well-being and justices sometimes conflict (Fund of Ethics, p.118). Utilitarianism argues that the best life is a life of sacrifice, sometimes extreme. If the motivation is too produce good results, then the action can be extreme. Thus, this is the case with torture. Philosophers have discussed the hypothetical case of the ticking time bomb in which “a decent leader of a nation is plagued with terrorism is asked to authorize the torture of a rebel leader who knows or probably knows the city, set to go off within the next 24 hours” (Ethical Life, 294). Jeremy Bentham, one of the philosophers argues he would torture the terrorist to save the masses of people because the number of lives saved would be greater than those hurt. “If the torture
