Mill attempts to account for individual utility and that no rights are violated because everyone’s view is equal. J.S. Mill’s attempt to address the rights of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority, in my opinion, has not been successful in securing individual rights due to the injustices of democracy through the tyranny of the majority.
Utilitarianism functions as an alternative to the earlier proposed idea of the Social Contract by analyzing how the social contract could have any moral force at all and how the states are worthy of our consent from the beginning. The political theory of utilitarianism was initially proposed by Jeremy Bentham, claiming that the state was justified by the ability to contribute to the overall well-being and moral happiness of its people. Bentham attempted to calculate the right course of action through legislation that achieved the greatest happiness principle. The cost and benefit analysis subjected individuals to utilitarian calculations. Bentham viewed the common good as not a mutual advantage but as an