d return home from school. I guess my reason for my choice is that I had to perform my duty. The duty was that I told my dad I was going to do something, and it is not morally right to lie to someone that you had promised something. The next morning I called up my buddy and told him that I could not make it this time because I had some stuff to do at home.A similar virtue of truthfulness is the virtue of trust. Trust is what develops from the use of truth in a social environment. In our society today I think that trust is one of the big ideals that people are missing. If you really think about it, they’re really aren’t to many people that you can trust now a days. If you would think about yourself and the people you trust you could probably only come up with a few people, which would probably only include your family and possibly one of your good friends.When dealing with Mills and the ideal of Utilitarianism you are pushed into dealing with everything by looking at the whole picture. Utilitarianism deals with how your actions affect not just you but how much happiness is brought to everyone around you. Mills talks about the pleasures in life and how you should deal with different situations by measuring how much pleasure and pain is dealt with. Truth and Trust seem to be turned around when you start to think about Utilitarianism. Mills states that all of your actions should be based upon the “greatest happiness Principle.” This principle says that ethical and moral actions result in the greatest amount of happiness for the most number of people.Utilitarianism was one of the harder ideals that I tried to grasp. I couldn’t come up with a situation in which I personally experienced utilitarianism but I come up with one. This deals with a child who is diagnosed with a fatal disease that causes him to be restricted to only a few more weeks of living. The big question that you are faced with is wha...
