Utilitarians can be criticized for which of the following? Failing to provide a

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Utilitarians can be criticized for which of the following?

Failing to provide a basis for personal integrity; a lie to relieve suffering might be acceptable.

Advocating social inequality since the happiness of some is worth more than others’ total misery.

Trivializing pleasure, since so many kinds can be quantified: intensity, duration, fruitfulness, etc.

Callousness toward the poor, whose suffering is not quantified accurately.

Failing to provide a basis for personal integrity; a lie to relieve suffering might be acceptable.

Advocating social inequality since the happiness of some is worth more than others’ total misery.

Trivializing pleasure, since so many kinds can be quantified: intensity, duration, fruitfulness, etc.

Callousness toward the poor, whose suffering is not quantified accurately.

utilarianism is a theory that can believing that the best moral action is maximising utility.

so option 3) seems to be correct

Trivializing pleasure, since so many kinds can be quantified: intensity, duration, fruitfulness, etc.

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