Second small dissertation assignment: Utilitarianism Subject to an incontestable incursion of time, different circumstances impose on us limited choices to make. In my view, our intuitions about ethical morality turn out to be the most favorable basis on which we should act. Thinking from the point of view of most people's moral intuitions, it is not acceptable that the surgeon, as stated in the first case, distributes the organs of a healthy person, while the action of the driver in directing pushing a cart into the path of a worker is a permissible act. From a utilitarian's point of view, the most notable factor in the trolley case is the number of lives saved. As the cable car driver, I have no choice but to kill someone, to stop the tram. The morally ethical thing to do would certainly be to point the wagon at the single worker and let him die. Of course, this will prove to be a great moral hazard for me, as many biases could arise as to whether I had something against the one worker or whether these 5 workers really deserved to live? While utilitarianism is best known as the happiness principle and this tends to provide a clear path to making moral decisions, but it places unfair demands on the individual. Utilitarianism is the subject of much criticism because it is recognized as a source that leads to a number of conclusions opposing the truth of common sense ethics. For example, act utilitarianism emphasizes that a person's activities should benefit the general well-being of society rather than self-improvement. Under action-utilitarianism, it is necessary to save the five workers... middle of paper ...... society and humanity as a whole. This type of philosophy doesn't stray too far from the often-ignored moral implications of intuition and emotion, which then reminds us that ultimately the purpose of morality was meant to serve humans and our needs, not the others. go around. We need to account for intuitions before we can account for morality. This observation questions whether utilitarianism is unfairly demanding. It is unfair to expect individuals to act in a way that maximizes the utility of society, because it is very difficult to perceive what action would achieve this goal. The problem with utilitarianism is that it is not always possible to know the consequences of one's actions. Works Cited Badger, Phil. (March 2014). How to get off our carts. Philosophy now. Retrieved from http://philosophynow.org/issues/86/How_To_Get_Off_Our_Trolleys