Utilitarianism

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a brave, or a benevolent man, or the contrary.”
Utilitarian also state “a right action does not necessarily indicate a virtuous character.” Utilitarians are not looking at the other qualities that many make that person beautiful. They are only looking at the action that the person did wrong.What Mill tells us is that a person of good character is judged by his or her good actions. Mills suggests us that utilitarians do not look beyond their moral beliefs to find any good characteristics in an individual. He quotes, “ there is nothing in the utilitarian theory inconsistent with the fact that there are other things which interest us in a person besides the rightness and wrongness of their actions.”
An example, of Mill’s response to his theory is, if an individual is caught up in the wrong crowd and is caught stealing, and the person is truly sorry for the crime that he or she has committed and is a well rounded person, than he or she should not be looked upon as a destructive ...

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