Utilitarianism can justify immoral …show more content…
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