Utilitarianism Is Wrong

First I would like to start off by defining what utilitarian mean well based off of the module a utilitarian is the person who believes in the greater good in other words a person who would take losses and justify it’s worth by the results gained from it. Now in regard to the question on how might utilitarian respond to the situation of the innocent man who was executed in order to keep the citizens from rioting. My answer to that is it would be the exact same result, because of how a utilitarian thinks. In situations like this I would guess that a utilitranian would not even hesitate to kill the innocent man, because a utilitrain would think that excuting the innocent man would be beneficial for the majority of the citizens so he would …show more content…
First Nothing in this world justifies killing an innocent man not even for the sake of the majority. let me refer back to the story of Abraham In the textbook “Practical Companion to Ethics.” When Abraham was talking to god about destroying the village when he said. “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroys the place and spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” (39) Then Abraham goes on to say “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the lord, I who am but dust and ashes. Suppose five out of fifty righteous are lacking. Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” (39) Then God listens to Abraham and says he won’t and Abraham manages to convince God himself to change his mind. Now I feel like this story is very much related to the topic we are discussing here in this story we can see that god and Abraham are not using utilitarianism to go about their decisions they are using Kent method …show more content…
I understand him being concerned about the peace and afraid of the riot, but he in my opinion would be able to calm the rioters down so why kill the innocent citizen? Is it really for the “people”? I do not believe so I think the mayor took this action for personal gains. In my opinion I think he did it so he could be loved by the people. Maybe an election was coming up, or maybe he just wanted to be popular amongst the citizen so he could hole on to his power as the