Answer to Question #188009 in Philosophy for Emmanuel

Question

Would you rather be a utilitarian or a deontologist? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

A utilitarian is a person who decides an action to be correct if it tends to encourage joy to the majority of the population or an action to be immoral if it tends to generate soreness and unhappiness to the people in the society. However, on the other hand, a deontologist is a person who suggests an action to be bad or good based on a clear set of rules and regulations in society. However, I will rather be a utilitarian because utilitarianism focuses on happiness as a society, focuses on humanity, seeks to make the maximum good quality, focuses on the democratic movement, and finally focuses on the objective universal solution.

Utilitarianism place pleasure as the essential reason for our way of life, people tend to undergo better-off when they have access to more monetary assets. It reduces the worries of people about future employment. Reduces unemployment rates and improves household incomes in society. Utilitarian teaches people that those choices that make individual happy but do not help others they are considered to be incorrect choices Moreover, utilitarianism usually seeks to create the highest good by trying to make everyone has equal joy and opportunities. By bringing a maximum level of joy in the lives of people then there will be minimizing harm in families, communities, and overall cultures. Utilitarianism emphasizes democracy in the community by allowing people to present their views and thoughts through the election. It also incorporates worldwide moral values and an objective approach by measuring the constructive and unconstructive cost of an action that the group agrees to take. It allows people to create independent ways of find out what is bad and good from moral and ethical. Due to these reasons and points, I will consider myself to be a utilitarian rather than being a   deontologist.

References 

Dimmock, M., & Fisher, A. (2017). Ethics for A-level. Open Book Publishers.