requires careful consideration of many factors and likely consequences.
the act that produces the greatest balance of pleasure over suffering
consequences of the act.
Utilitarianism is consequentialism. According to utilitarians, the only thing that makes an act morally right or wrong is whether or not it has beneficial consequences. An ethics of virtue is based on the idea (common to many ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle) that a morally right act is some situation that calls for a moral decision is what a virtuous person would do in that situation. .
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the Utilitarians they said - something is morally right when the maximum amount of happiness is produced for the greatest amount of people
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To end poverty and injustices
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people should act right according to what the five basic relationships say!
To be ethical is to act in accordance with standards of right and wrong; to do the right thing at all times. To be unethical is not to act according to standards of right and wrong, but instead according to another standard, say, that of only acting for one's own benefit. And if you have to kill babies to get that benefit, so be it.