According to John Stuart Mill, “utilitarianism requires [one] to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator” (756). However, Amia Srinivasan argues that this leads the utilitarian to “demand the wrong things” (8).
In your paper, present the utilitarian line of thought (drawing on Mill). Your presentation of utilitarianism should involve a discussion of consequentialism, the specific notion of happiness that Mill is working with, and the impartiality aspect of the view. Then explain why this leads to the wrong kind of demands. Use an example of your own to illustrate the worry.
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