The principle of utility is that pleasure and happiness are valuable, pain and suffering are disvaluable, and anything else only causes the happiness or adds to the suffering. A utilitarian is someone who believes the principle of utility to be correct, and is therefore concerned with maximizing the utility of the universe. Utilitarianism indicates that an action is right if it produces as much or more of an increase in happiness, or wrong if it …
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…be a wonderful place to live if there was more happiness, but not just for yourself- but for everyone. If we lived in a place where everyone was so busy trying to make themselves happy, would care and consideration become extinct? I think that it would, if everyone became self-indulged, who would be left to care about thy neighbor? My answer is no one, and that would cause a lot of unhappiness in the world.