Jesus Of Nazareth Analysis

John Stuart Mills explains, “In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” (Mills 17) As individuals we all unknowingly seem to maximize the satisfaction of our own choices when we act. If one chooses to perfect activity A rather than activity B, we are then revealing that we as individual prefer performing activity A to performing activity B. In our everyday lives we would like and hope that other people would maximize the satisfaction of our preferences when they act on their own preferences. This is because that would us attain and achieve our own personal goals, which we are already attempting to achieve through the actions that we perform in our everyday lives. If we were to have additional help in the race to achieve our personal aspirations, it would be like having other individuals throw their weight behind our own attempts to please our own choices to the fullest
In other words, since preferences and choices can be weak or strong, interests should be provided with careful thought because they should be respected for the actual strength of the choices and preference they belong to. If human morality were the single motivating factor in human life, and everyone accepted preference utilitarianism, then all individuals would be able to respect individuals’ preferences in general. This action would involve a large amount of compromise, because each individual’s choices and preferences will eventually come into conflict with someone else’s choices and preferences. But in an ideal utilitarian world, choices and preferences would be respected to the best of human beings’ ability regardless of whose preferences they