How can we treat everyone with dignity or as a end to themselves if we underestimate human morality. As a solution, we with have rules and regulations to keep us on the correct path to virtuous deeds but not necessarily help us act intrinsically good. If that is the case, how can we accept utilitarianism as an appropriate practice when it calculate consequences and creates outcomes that produce the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. However, we cannot determine the consequences of every action.
What do you think we can do to better utility?
The felicific calculus is not perfect so we must predict what we can and act on it. The best way to find out what the most utility is, is to develop better methods of predicting the future and refining it as best we can.
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