Examples Of Act Utilitarianism

In Mill’s moral theory, he defined utilitarianism as actions that lead to people’s happiness being right; those that lead to suffering are wrong. The act Utilitarianism theory provides an answer to moral issues and situations. Mill’s theory of moral issues allows for a unique perspective but has many flaws in the theory that need to be addressed.
He said that Act Utilitarianism is the act that produces the most significant utility. The utility is the beneficial effect on everyone affected by the action. For instance, “ Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (Mill, p. 5). He created a procedure to determine which action was correct, and the overall effect/utility

One of Mills' main strengths is the simplicity of his theory, which helps people easily reach a consensus on moral topics and situations. Act Utilitarianism gives clear directions on how to reach a solution to moral acts. Throughout Mill’s text, he provides examples and states what is considered happiness such as categorizing pleasures as high and low. Some negative that his theory focuses on the long-term consequences more than the short-term consequences of one's moral actions. Another would be quality over quantity pleasures there is not a definite good way to measure the quality of pleasures. Everyone has a different perspective on how they would measure quality and quantity of pleasures. Utilitarianism is only focused on the actions of one's doing and not the motivation of the action. For example, if someone only did a good deed like helping the homeless to increase their following on social media versus someone helping the homeless out of kindness and helping improve someone's well-being. Utilitarianism is only concentrated on how the quality and quantity of action or pleasure, not motivation/reasoning. The theory of hedonism is the thinking that pleasure is the central achievement in human life. Pleasure is the most valuable thing and humans should strive to obtain happiness with actions. The Positives of this theory is that it is focused on pleasure and seeking happiness. With happiness, one can live an easier and more enjoyable life. The negative of this is that it's only focused on pleasure nothing else. It is saying that only pleasure is the most valuable to people it's ignoring all the other factors of a moral action/issue. On page five Mill addresses animals swine in particular; he says a doctrine worthy only of swine. This statement is basically saying that animals and humans are no better than each other, there is no superiority between one