The CTAA reading was super interesting and I found it to be very insightful for a lot of different reasons. The main reason had to be how it highlighted maximizing consequentialists and their beliefs. They believe that one should produce as much happiness as possible, and I find this super important in life. I personally believe that whatever anyone does, they should do it because it makes them happy.<\/p>\n
The universalistic maximizing consequentialist argument can be applied to a lot of life choices and arguments. If doing something – such as donating to a charity – will maximize happiness for everyone in the world and it is morally good to maximize happiness for everyone in the world, then I concur that “H” or a person should do said action. The maximizing\u00a0consequentialist point of view does have a downfall, one we saw with the water pumps in DGB, where people thought that they were producing the most amount of happiness for the people in need – when in fact they were not. That being said, I think that the\u00a0maximizing consequentialist argument should be one that is considered often for arguing and choices, but with sincere thought to actually produce the most happiness\/good, not just assuming you are producing the most happiness\/good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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