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    Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism where the morality of an action is based solely on its ability to promote happiness or pleasure for the greatest number of people. It opposes egoism and considers the consequences of actions, not just intentions. The document discusses the case of Mang Kepweng, a janitor who stole money from his rich boss to pay for his wife's cancer treatment and daughter's school project. While stealing is generally considered immoral, utilitarianism would argue Mang Kepweng's actions were morally justified because they resulted in greater happiness and benefit for his family's health and education needs compared to the lower harm incurred by his boss.

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    Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism where the morality of an action is based solely on its ability to promote happiness or pleasure for the greatest number of people. It opposes egoism and considers the consequences of actions, not just intentions. The document discusses the case of Mang Kepweng, a janitor who stole money from his rich boss to pay for his wife's cancer treatment and daughter's school project. While stealing is generally considered immoral, utilitarianism would argue Mang Kepweng's actions were morally justified because they resulted in greater happiness and benefit for his family's health and education needs compared to the lower harm incurred by his boss.

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    Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism where the morality of an action is based solely on its ability to promote happiness or pleasure for the greatest number of people. It opposes egoism and considers the consequences of actions, not just intentions. The document discusses the case of Mang Kepweng, a janitor who stole money from his rich boss to pay for his wife's cancer treatment and daughter's school project. While stealing is generally considered immoral, utilitarianism would argue Mang Kepweng's actions were morally justified because they resulted in greater happiness and benefit for his family's health and education needs compared to the lower harm incurred by his boss.

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    Utilitarianism

    In normative ethics, utilitarianism is a tradition originating with economists


    and English philosophers John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th and
    early 19th centuries, relative to which type of action is appropriate if something did
    appear to promote pleasure or happiness and wrong if something appears to cause
    pain or unhappiness, not only for the doer of the action but also for everyone affected by
    the action. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism, which would be the philosophical
    philosophy which suggests acts should be determined by their consequences. Other
    consequentialist philosophies and utilitarianism oppose egoism, the belief where each
    individual must follow their individual self-interest at all costs, and any ethical philosophy
    that considers certain behavior to be right or wrong regardless of its repercussions.

    The moral issue that I've chosen was stealing in which Mang Kepweng who
    is a janitor in a company in Manila. His family depended on him given that her wife is in
    a hospital due to cancer and is needing a P500,000 for treatment, and her daughter
    ( Susan) who is needing money for her project. Even though Mang kepweng has a
    source of income, it is still not enough to pay for his wife's treatment and his daughter
    project. There are only two options available to him: either he will not pay at all or he
    pays by stealing. With that, Mang kepweng decided to steal from his boss who is a
    millionaire to pay for his wife's treatment and for her daughter to have a project. Stealing
    may be considered immoral. As a result, we will conclude whether what Mang Kepweng
    had done—stealing from the company where he works—is immoral. Utilitarianism, on
    the other hand, would conclude that Mang Kepweng's actions are morally correct.
    Stealing is neither good nor bad in and of itself, according to utilitarian’s; what makes it
    good or bad are the consequences it creates. In the example, Mang Kepweng stole
    money from his boss who had a lower need for it and spent it on two people who had a
    higher need of it.

    Thus, for utilitarian’s, Mang Kepweng stealing from his boss which is the
    mean may be justified given the fact that the stolen money was used to pay for the
    treatment of her wife and her daughter's project which is the end. The benefit of the theft
    outweighs the damages incurred by the theft, according to this justification. Mang
    Kepweng's stealing was morally right because it resulted in more gain than harm. To put
    it another way, the action improved net utility by producing more happiness or pleasure
    than unhappiness or pain.

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