This specific group is in danger of becoming evil because the majority makes fun of the minority. We should worry more about them because another evil may occur. An example of utilitarianism is when there is a new student in school and most of the students in the school resent the new student. As a majority student, you would try to step up and stop the bullying going around. This brings me back to the Crito, to what would have happened if Socrates had listened to the people inside and outside the prison. He wouldn't believe in himself. Criticism concerns moral reasoning because it cannot be tied to the consequences of a person's actions. The next response to utilitarianism is that it ignores intent. Ultimately they just look at the overall results. An example is when the professor's husband took the bag off the cat's head. Ultimately the cat ended up dying. Utilitarianism thought he was a criminal for killing an animal, even though he was trying to improve it
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