E. F Caritt Utilitarianism

1. What is the difference between a. and a. Criticisms of Utilitarianism by E. F. Carritt, Carritt, argues against Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is an idea that focuses on making sure more people benefit than suffer from a solution. Carritt believes you can’t measure pleasure and pain points accurately. Pleasure and pain points are divided based on what solution would benefit everyone involved in the scenario most, As Carritt says, “It is said that pleasures and pains cannot be measured or weighted like proteins or money and therefore cannot be compared so that I can never tell whether I shall produce an overbalance of pleasure in this way or in that” (Carritt, 503). Here Carritt is saying that pleasure and pain points will differ depending on the scenario and
When I listened to a podcast about a hospital that had to decide which patients were more important to rescue, doctors had assigned them to three groups depending on their condition. The first group was a bunch of patients that needed help, but their conditions were not life-threatening. The second group needed care, but they could wait a while, while the third group was in life-threatening danger. When I heard this, I questioned how you could fully decide who needed help first, and I questioned why they were going to put people in life-threatening conditions last. The pleasure and pain points needed to be calculated for all these people would take forever and it would be wrong to let someone in a terrible condition die just because other people have a higher chance of living. Instead of deciding who might live and who wouldn’t be based on who would have a higher chance of living, you should try to help as many people as you can. Carritt would agree because in his argument he talks about how utilitarianism fails when it comes to moral judgments. He says