Libertarianism Vs Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism and libertinism are debatable philosophies to decide what is just. Utilitarian main principle is maximizing society happiness. From Utilitarian point of view, the best action is the action produce happiness for the greatest amount of people. Even though minority of people will suffer for the majority’s happiness. Moreover, utilitarianism measures the cost and benefit in single scale which is happiness. From this view, any other things than happiness are not valuable. On the other hand, Libertarianism is an opposite principle of utilitarianism. Libertarian principle’s core is freedom of choice without control of laws or moral. This means, individuals take the responsibility of their own choice and do whatever they want without hurting anyone. Self-ownership is the name of Libertarianism principle.
Imagine that a man decides to kill a young boy because the boy can make his parents’ life miserable when he grows up. Killing the boy will likely maximize the parents’ happiness, which is standard in the utilitarianism’s principle. Killing the boy would be the best choice to stop his parents from suffering and increase the parents’ happiness. From Libertarian’s view, they will argue that killing an innocent boy is unacceptable because the man would violate the boy’s freedom of choice. Nevertheless, it is only acceptable if the boy chooses to suicide to avoid making his parents suffer, as it is his own choice and he does not hurt anyone.
Utilitarianism and libertinism are conflicted philosophies. Utilitarianism reaches to the majority welfare through ignores individual right or freedom. While libertine believes that sacrificing individual freedom to the welfare of the majority is an