Using the utilitarian approach, you weigh good and bad consequences when considering an action. If the good outweighs the bad, it's generally a good decision. This moral reasoning exists when a person reflects on the consequences of an action using utilitarian calculus. This is where an ethical mathematics measures consequences in the measurement of hedon (positive) and dolor (negative). “For Bentham, pleasure and pain not only serve as an explanation of action, but also define a person's morality. In short, it is starting from pleasures and pains, which can only exist in individuals, that Bentham thought a calculation of values ​​could be constructed”