1. Differentiate Morals from Ethics.
Morality can be defined as the principles of people’s lives which they follow for right and wrong things. In other words, ‘morality’ is meant the standards of rightness and the ways through people can judge human behaviours. Morals deal with culturally transmitted standards of right and wrong. According to my opinion, morals show one’s actions are good in some way. Morality is the distinction between right and wrong. There are number of definitions for morality from past to present. Some definitions are given in forthcoming lines.
Based on “Webster New World Dictionary of American Language”, moral is …show more content…
The artificial identification of our own interests with others means that human beings always act in such a way that promotes the general happiness as this would provide the benefits to all people for long term.
Types of Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham divides utilitarianism into different forms as given below:
1. Act Utilitarianism
This is the simplest and straight-forward type. Act utilitarianism advices us to judge each individual action from its outcome only. If it is a choice between two different actions, we are obliged to take the one which would provide the most happiness for most people.
The main problem with this is that it could permit some illegal or wrong acts such as employing 40 child labourers in India to make cheaper product for a cloth company in USA, the profit for the great number of shareholders in the company would be greatly increased.
2. Rule Utilitarianism
Rule Utilitarianism is not concerned with individually acts but with the utility of rule for action. It means judge an act in such a way so everyone should obey this ruke.
3. Negative