Utilitarianism (Samantha Licciardi)

Utilitarianism is the greater good for the greater number. I do not agree with this idea, this idea favors the majority and basically doesn't care, or take into consideration, the opinion of the minority. This uneven balance could lead to a power struggle between the majority and minority. Concerning putting a value on human life, I don't think that you can possibly put a price on human life. Human life is absolutely everything. Everything good, bad and everything in between. Putting a price on life is impossible because life is too value to place a price on. Money can't buy everything life has to offer, its priceless. Also, with the Ford car and how they put a value on the lives of those killed from their cars. No amount of money can bring that person back to the ones that loved them, or fix all the emotional damage done to these families. Another issue discussed in class was that Roman's threw Christians into the colosseum to get brutally murdered by lions just for the amusement. Romans murdered these people in one of the most painful ways possible just to make the greater number happier. I don't think this could possibly be justified. Even if they are only making a handful of people suffer, in this case the minority, they still matter and it shouldn't be acceptable to murder people to violently take away these people's lives forever just to amuse the greater number of Rome for about an hour or two.