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Utilitarianism unnamed - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Violation of human rights
      - TROUBLES Calculating utility
        
        Trying to calculate happiness is a problem with Utilitarianism because there are so many factors that contribute to making a choice.
- - - - Impossible to provide all moral goods with a single currency of value
        
        Ex Lung Cancer cases
        
        Consider the cost of dying early for the smoker and the saving for the government
        
        Care for citizens' health and provide defensible policy toward smoking
    - - Fail to consider human rights
        
        EX: Throwing Christians to lions
        
        Determine the happiness that could gain from the activity vs the pain that received from Christians
  - - - UNDERSTOOD AS OUR "SOVEREIGN MASTERS"
    - - different types of pleasure
      - pleasure not on a single scale, unlike Bentham
      - EX. Dogfights versus Rembrandt:
        if the public pleasure skews more towards dogfights, should we fund dogfights and house them in the metropolitan museum of art?
- - - - believes "respecting individual liberty" will result in the "greatest human happiness" OVER TIME
      - stresses the importance of developing human faculties