he single fat man. The second story deals with a megistrate that is pressured by the mob to condemn an innocent person in order to prevent the mob of murdering innocent people. The megistrate acts as a utilitarian by condeming an innocent person to save the lives of the many innocent people. The megistrate acts as a utilitarian but was his decision the right decision? Is utilitarinism always the right action to take? In the next passage I will describe oppositions made towards utilitarianism.Bernard Williams is the author of “ A Case against Utilitarianism”. In this passage Williams is against utilitarianism because he beliefs that the actions that a person takes matter because decisions are reflected by integrity, responsibility, and morals. His argument states that utilitarianism is only concerned with the best outcome, and that utilitarianism does not consider and evaluate the actions that a person must take to achieve the outcome. Williams’s beliefs that a person must do what is morally correct. For example, in Nielsen’s mob story, Williams could argue that the megistrate did wrong in killing the innocent man because he is always going to be held responsible for the murder futhermore he has probably violated his values, integrity, and morals. Williams would argue that the megistrate should do what he thinks is morally right because he is the only one held responsible for his own actions. In his story he includes the story of Jim. Jim is confronted with a hard situation; he must kill one Indian in order to save the whole tribe to be killed by another individual. In this situation a utilitarian would kill the Indian in order to save the whole tribe, but Jim decides not tro kill the Indian. Jim does not want to be held responsible for the murder, he want to maintain his integrity and moral beliefs. Ursula Le Guinn, the author of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, describes a utopic society whos...
