Examples Of Act Utilitarianism
Person A: Do you know that act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism are theories that are determinants of what is considered morally wrong in relation to expected utility?
Person B: What do you mean by utility?
Person A: Utility is a form of advantage and value of personal good (Hooker, 2013).
Person B: Can you tell me more about act and rule utilitarianism?
Person A: Act-utilitarianism states that an act is morally needed if and for the reason that the person act’s expected utility is greater than the expected utility of any alternative individual act. It promotes any act that heightens welfare and which is done by a specific individual. On the other hand in rule utilitarianism …show more content…
Rules that are or would be of use when they are accepted and complied universally.
Person B: Wow! Are there any differences between these two forms of utilitarianism?
Person A: Yes there are. For instance act utilitarianism states that the rightness of an act depends on if its actual repercussions have a level of utility that can be equated to that of other acts. Also it states that for an act to be right, the utility expected out of it has to be equal to what an alternative can. Rule utilitarianism gives a different point of view because it assesses acts in terms of rules and not each act separately. It states that an act is right if the rules having the greatest expected value allow it.
Person B: Is it true that rules proposed by rule utilitarians do not need to be included in legal laws?
Person A: That is true. This is due the fact that they do not attribute to codes or systems which are made of directives or restrictions founded on customary routines, traditional beliefs or directives from leaders and paranormal individuals. Rather, they believe that justification of morality is by the positive impact it has on human and non-human beings. In that it elevates the amount of good occurrences while decreasing the amount of bad occurrences (Nathanson,
Person B: What do you mean by utility?
Person A: Utility is a form of advantage and value of personal good (Hooker, 2013).
Person B: Can you tell me more about act and rule utilitarianism?
Person A: Act-utilitarianism states that an act is morally needed if and for the reason that the person act’s expected utility is greater than the expected utility of any alternative individual act. It promotes any act that heightens welfare and which is done by a specific individual. On the other hand in rule utilitarianism …show more content…
Rules that are or would be of use when they are accepted and complied universally.
Person B: Wow! Are there any differences between these two forms of utilitarianism?
Person A: Yes there are. For instance act utilitarianism states that the rightness of an act depends on if its actual repercussions have a level of utility that can be equated to that of other acts. Also it states that for an act to be right, the utility expected out of it has to be equal to what an alternative can. Rule utilitarianism gives a different point of view because it assesses acts in terms of rules and not each act separately. It states that an act is right if the rules having the greatest expected value allow it.
Person B: Is it true that rules proposed by rule utilitarians do not need to be included in legal laws?
Person A: That is true. This is due the fact that they do not attribute to codes or systems which are made of directives or restrictions founded on customary routines, traditional beliefs or directives from leaders and paranormal individuals. Rather, they believe that justification of morality is by the positive impact it has on human and non-human beings. In that it elevates the amount of good occurrences while decreasing the amount of bad occurrences (Nathanson,