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This paper responds to set questions on the defects of utilitarianism, as found in matters of constant sacrificial action, Utilitarian errors of justice, the greatest good rationale and all things to do with the ideal as opposed to the practicality of the philosophy. The paper notes a guiding social ethos, perhaps deduced to date in its promise of social improvability, in relation to rights.

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"A Critical Assessment of Utilitarianism Introduction John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is most familiar to contemporary students of Philosophy and Political Science in his credo to do with the greatest good, for the greatest number, or societies that should be organized so that they can bring the greatest happiness to the greatest number. Mill's thinking has influenced the shape of contemporary liberal democracies in areas led by policies that should bring benefit to the greater part of a society, and classical liberal ideas of ensuring personal freedoms that can ensure happiness and remove future sources of contention."

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