Which of the Following Considerations About Utilitarism Is Correct

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following considerations about utilitarism is correct?

• A)The great 19^th century utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, believed that pleasure and happiness were different things.
• B)Bentham was concerned with the quantity of pleasure that an action produces, not with distinctions based on the type of the pleasure.
• C)Act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism consistently agree upon which actions are morally right.
• D)Utilitarians believe that we can't compare one person's happiness with that of another.

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