Therefore, based on the pleasures and pains of utilitarianism, fulfilling the duties of ethics and following the ideals set forth in virtue ethics by great philosophers including Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Confucius, morality forms the foundation of a person's ability to achieve happiness, thus linking morality to happiness. Utilitarianism believes in the greatest happiness principle. He states that “actions are good to the extent that they tend to promote happiness, bad to the extent that they tend to produce the opposite of happiness” (Boss, 389). In this sense, actions are based on your morals or virtues that you believe you implement in your daily life. In the case of utilitarianism in general, your individual actions are governed by whether they create more good for yourself or for the group involved. In other words, an action is morally right depending on the degree of happiness it promotes. A great example would be hitting or tickling the baby. If a person punches the baby, it will cause great pain and make him sad and sad.