I personally enjoyed learning about utilitarianism this year. I think that society should be ran on a utilitarian system, however I know that there have been very few successful modern utopias. Utopias, I believe, existed when more often when humans lived as primitive beings and closer to nature. Nowadays, humans are living in cities and suburbs. Our decisions to do such things as turn off the light, or throw away our trash now effects not only the people around us but people and nature far away from us, as such things as power plants and landfills are needed.
Self Interest can and has jeopardized the greatest happiness for the most amount of people, otherwise known as the greatest happiness principle. Our taxes are used in a utalitarian manner, attempting to help the most amount of people. But, when politicians ear mark money for the sake of their own self interest, such as governor Palin's "bridge to nowhere" then there is a serious breach in the greatest happiness principle because a population of people are not made happy by the bad legislation. Also, another thing to conciser is whether Osama Bin Ladens sudden death was the best way to deal with the crimes he committed
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