... achieving happiness and alleviate suffering. Surprisingly, utilitarianism on the one hand gives value to evil as well as happiness pleasures and believes this to be democratic, as they do not cast judgement on preference. However, it fails to go beyond this and take any account of factors/emotions that may have more, or simply, a different value than happiness. In other words, it only makes a quantitative distinction of pleasure between acts rather than make any reference to qualitative distinction and is unable to articulate any fundamental decisions in value. One of the main objections to utilitarianism among critics is the way that it takes no account of the distribution of satisfaction. The individuality of people is crucial and morally relevant, our own experiences are what give us a separate psychological locus and personal identity, therefore when you are forced to suffer under utilitarianism, it does not really bring you ...

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