Comparison Of Utilitarian Ethical Theories

Ethical Theories
Utilitarianism
Utilitarian ethical theories are based on one’s ability to expect the concerns of an deed. Utilitarianism’s creed is that the result of any action takes importance over any type of means, this means that Utilitarianisms objective is to help as many individuals as possible even if it were to negatively disturb people along the way so as long as it helped the general populace. Basically, it’s the ends that matter not necessarily the means.
Rights
Rights ethical theory are legal principles of freedom to us human beings. The rights are made for all individuals and they are strongly sheltered and given the most importance. They are measured to be ethically precise and legal since a very high scale of people prefers them. People can also grant rights over others if they are able to do so with genuine examples. Case in point, a person may say that his mate may use his car for the night or so. The mate who was given the ability to use the car now has a right to the car in the night. People have to regulate what rights they want to support and offer to others. Before setting up a right, it’s really important to know what the society’s aims and ethical main concerns are.
Comparison
These two ethical theories shares different actualities and significances to each other.
The difference between utilitarianism and rights theory is that utilitarianism goes against the rights sometimes; For example, government carries out surveillance on citizens to prevent crime and terrorism. We all have right not to be monitored but in the above mentioned example , the human right had been neglected just to stop criminal activities to occur. The similarity behind these two ethical theories would be that both are good for the future and both look at the future
outcome.

Ethical Theory Preference.
Taking in concern of the consequences, I think that the rights theory is what I prefer to be better out of the two theories which I mentioned above. Rights theory is something where there is a favourable outcome with legal consideration. These rights are mostly created by the government but they are certainly chosen by the general public. Utilitarianism has nothing to do with respect for others, it is just about using people for whatever purpose you need. Rights based ethics is the only system of ethics where it benefits everyone from every side.
Ethical Issues
Autonomous Vehicle
Automated vehicles can prove to have an ethical issue regarding the fact of what happens if any accidents were to take place from these automated vehicles. Who is to be held at fault and who is the victim? Although this is all speculation as no actual accidents have happened (due to the fact that this technology hasn’t been approved for the public) the potential ethical ramifications can still pose a major factor. An ethical issue surrounding this piece of technology is how the vehicle makes a choice if one were forced upon it, e.g. If it had to choose between hitting one of three people located in front and one on each side. The ethics regarding this one possibility and situation are hugely controversial, so who does the vehicle hit? A child, a helmeted cyclist or another vehicle and whose safety is to be considered first? (Including the driver) this is only one example and many more can be addressed. This one concern is what makes this particular issue very controversial.
Viewing this issue from a “Rights theory” perspective I think the driverless car would have to come without any predetermined decision making and should focus all of its computing power on avoiding the accident altogether. Of course this method wouldn’t prevent accidents all together as robots though autonomous aren’t flawless