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Utilitarianism Happiness At The End

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According to our lecture “Utilitarianism uses the happiness produced as the sole and single criterion for all ethics. This ethics is not an a priori and rational form of ethics but a very concrete form of ethics in which only the happiness produced will be valued totally apart from all intentions and motives involved in making decisions” (Page, 2016) . As we all know ethic is concerned with what is right and what is wrong, it is a study of human choices. What people believe is right, that is right and what they believe is wrong is wrong. In Utilitarianism, the action that produces happiness at the end is consider right, morally right. In the giving case study, killing the leader of the guerrillas might help in saving other people lives. In

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