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Originally posted by Pellaz
So-the above statement sounds like mob rule, to me. Is that the case?
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Every action causes pain or/and pleasure to some degree to everyone envolved. If there was someone who was completly moral and did absolutly everything to maximise the amount of pleasure to pain, he would have to look deeply at everything he did to understand if it was morally right or wrong. Nobody does this. Utilitarianism simply states that if you have the choice between helping someone and hurting someone, than its morally right to help someone and morally wrong to hurt someone. If you have the choice of causing 1000 people harm or 15 people the same amount of harm, than its morally right to cause 15 people harm. But nobody forces you to do the morally right thing. The only thing you'll have to live with is your own conscience.