... understood as being a standard that judges the moral rightness or wrongness of actions on the basis of their outcome using the maxim, "the greatest happiness for the greatest number", or the one as Mill stated, "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to promote the reverse of happiness." It does subsume the notion of justice in some ways. Firstly, to be just to each other is a means to ensure happiness for each individual and the society as a whole. As Mill asserted, the idea of justice is the idea of perfect obligation with correlative rights. That is to say, just people cannot by any means harm another by aggression against him (her) and his (her) property or by failure to comply with his (her) justified expectations because that is what he (she) has valid claims for. If this does happen, ...

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