Utilitarianism is the theory that the right decision is that which produces the greatest amount of good, everyone considered. The strengths of this theory is that we are not simply considered our own selfish wants, but the good of all people. The struggle we often have with this concept is that utilitarianists are forced to make decisions where there is often a lot of collateral damage. That begs the question as to whether the good created is greater than the loss. The Tuskegee experiments are a perfect example of this principle. The US Public Health Service spent a large amount of money to gain knowledge of the disease called syphilis. This disease has a large amount of affects if it goes untreated. They studied rural, African American men
