FROM MORAL POINT OF VIEW, WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CONFLICTS BETWEEN UTILITARIANISM AND MORALITY? SHOULD A RIGHTIOUS PERSON ACCEPT UTILITARIANISM? WHY? WHY NOT?

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There are lots of differences between the arguments utilitarianism and morality, but it is easy to merge these two different arguments utilitarianism and morality in to one title. If we have to compare these two different concepts basically, utilitarianism is acceptable because it looks for maximum happiness and maximum pleasure therefore whatever is done for utilitarianism gets approval. According to utilitarianism as J.S Mills says end justifies the means and according to morality means justify the ends lie Kant says. To explain the confliction between morality and utilitarianism it is acceptable to give examples from “The House MD (Season 1, episode 4) and Jim and Indians of Bernard Williams (reading #6). Through these examples we can show that utilitarianism is unacceptable and wrong, and there is mostly a dilemma between utilitarianism and morality. House md clears the confliction between morality and utilitarianism. House md is TV show and it takes its name from House Md the doctor. In that episode, a baby suddenly gets ill and doctors take the baby to intensive care unit. However they cope with the baby’s situation and they lost the baby. They naturally think that it must be a virus or something but when Dr House gets informed about the situation, he is very sure about that this illness is epidemic. He starts to figure where this epidemic illness came from. Therefore House and the other doctors apply their medical knowledge find a lot of reasons for epidemic. At last they decide two solutions but it is not enough because they can not make two separate treatments to different babies. In this scenario there is a fifty percent chances and in this case one of the kids must die for the wrong treatment. This was crazy and against morality, if doctors approve this they are against their vow because they let one baby die for the sake of others. This was completely

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