How Have Considerations of Justice Been Used to Argue Against

question 466

Multiple Choice

How have considerations of justice been used to argue against utilitarianism, according to Mill?

• A) By arguing that justice establishes a criterion of right and wrong that is independent of utility, whereas utilitarianism says that utility is the sole criterion of right and wrong.
• B) By arguing that although utilitarianism might be appropriate as a way for individuals to make private decisions, it cannot replace justice as a guide for making political or legal decisions.
• C) By arguing that it is inconsistent to insist that utility is the sole criterion of right and wrong and also that justice matters.
• D) By arguing that utilitarianism permits or even requires people to act in obviously unjust ways and so cannot be a correct theory of morality.

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