Utilitarianism
Utilitarian ethical theories are based on one’s ability to expect the concerns of an deed. Utilitarianism’s creed is that the result of any action takes importance over any type of means, this means that Utilitarianisms objective is to help as many individuals as possible even if it were to negatively disturb people along the way so as long as it helped the general populace. Basically, it’s the ends that matter not necessarily the means.
Rights
Rights ethical theory are legal principles of freedom to us human beings. The rights are made for all individuals and they are strongly sheltered and given the most importance. They are measured to be ethically precise and legal since a very high scale of people prefers them. People can also grant rights over others if they are able to do so with genuine examples. Case in point, a person may say that his mate may use his car for the night or so. The mate who was given the ability to use the car now has a right to the car in the night. People have to regulate what rights they want to support and offer to others. Before setting up a right, it’s really important to know what the society’s aims and ethical main concerns are. …show more content…
The difference between utilitarianism and rights theory is that utilitarianism goes against the rights sometimes; For example, government carries out surveillance on citizens to prevent crime and terrorism. We all have right not to be monitored but in the above mentioned example , the human right had been neglected just to stop criminal activities to occur. The similarity behind these two ethical theories would be that both are good for the future and both look at the future