Examples Of Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is a moral theory that an action is morally right if that action produces the greatest of good and happiness for the most number of people. Therefore, one should act if and only if one’s action produce the greatest possible balance of good and happiness over bad and unhappiness. Being one of the method that people commonly use to decide the rightness and wrongness of an action, utilitarianism provides a clear guidelines of the determination an action’s rightness. In addition, utilitarianism offers an objective way to resolve self-interest conflicts, and gives a simple methodology and flexible approach for moral decision making. Yet, nothing in reality can be prefect, including utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is an imperfect theory because of it justified immoral, demands too much, and being unjust.
Utilitarianism can justify immoral
Utilitarianism treats people differently based on their capacity for happiness. Utilitarianism cares only about maximizing happiness or pleasure, not the unhappiness side. In addition, the rights of individual not as important as the good for the many. For example, the hospital ten patient that in need of organ transplantation as soon as possible and nine organs available for organ transplantation. Nine of the ten patient need only one organ to survive their sickness, but the remaining patient need all nine organs to survive. Using utilitarianism to make a decision, the doctor decided to give the nine organs to the nine patient, while letting the last patient die as nothing the doctor can do to save him anymore. The doctor’s act is morally right according to utilitarianism, and in reality, can’t be consider wrong either. However, the doctor’s act of is unjust to the last patient because the act being unfair to the patient and the patient’s right to survive has been taken away. Unjust is not wrong, it is just how the world work. But unjust is imperfect and therefore utilitarianism is