According to Mill, How Is Utilitarianism Compatible with the Requirements

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Multiple Choice

According to Mill, how is utilitarianism compatible with the requirements of justice?

• A) The things that justice requires are simply things that are, from a utilitarian perspective, especially important for people to do.
• B) Utilitarianism can acknowledge justice as a set of guidelines to help people make moral decisions while insisting that the general happiness remains the sole criterion for right and wrong.
• C) Although the requirements of justice are not real moral requirements, the fact that people feel great mental pain when they are violated means that utilitarianism generally opposes such violations.
• D) The rules of justice impose arbitrary limits on what people may do to promote the general happiness, but within those limits, people ought to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

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