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Example Of Utilitarianism

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According to Jeremy Bentham, utilitarianism is “the highest principle of morality to maximize happiness, the overall balance of pleasure over pain” (Sandel, 33). Thus speaking, doing whatever possible to make sure people’s happiness is maximized and no infliction of pain taking place on the majority of individuals is Bentham’s view of utilitarianism. He believes that utilitarianism is individual based, but that finding the greatest good should be based on the greatest number. One example of utilitarianism in the book is whether torture is ever justifiable when interrogating suspected terrorists. Although the idea of utilitarianism is for no pain to be felt, using utilitarian calculation to recognize that torturing one individual to get information
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