If we were lookin gat the case in a consequentialist’s point of view, we would still kill Tom to save the four other children. Consequentialism is defined as “a general approach to ethics that maintains that consequences –and only consequences- are what make something morally good or bad” (95.) The consequence or killing Tom would be saving four other children, therefore the ratio would remain 4:1 and the consequences would be desirable. Mill’s explains that some pleasures fall on a higher plane than others. This would be the reason that killing Tom would be okay. One of the highest pleasures, according to Mill is helping others. In this case, Tom is dying, but he dies knowing he did it to help four others live. That in Utilitarianism and Consequentialism would promote the greatest utility, therefore be the greatest choice to make in the
If we were lookin gat the case in a consequentialist’s point of view, we would still kill Tom to save the four other children. Consequentialism is defined as “a general approach to ethics that maintains that consequences –and only consequences- are what make something morally good or bad” (95.) The consequence or killing Tom would be saving four other children, therefore the ratio would remain 4:1 and the consequences would be desirable. Mill’s explains that some pleasures fall on a higher plane than others. This would be the reason that killing Tom would be okay. One of the highest pleasures, according to Mill is helping others. In this case, Tom is dying, but he dies knowing he did it to help four others live. That in Utilitarianism and Consequentialism would promote the greatest utility, therefore be the greatest choice to make in the