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Free French Partisans killed 80 Germans soldiers-prisoners during World War II, as an answer to the same act done by Germans. Was it right from moral point of view? What would John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant say about it?
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Free French Partisans killed 80 Germans soldiers-prisoners during World War II, as an answer to the same act done by Germans. Was it right from moral point of view? What would John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant say about it? Can and how such act be justified by their moral doctrines? John Stuart Mill believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism, which states that everyone should act in such a way to bring the largest possibly balance of good over evil for everyone involved. However, good is a relative term. What is good? Mill made a distinction between happiness and sheer sensual pleasure. He defines happiness in terms of higher order pleasure (i.e. social enjoyments, intellectual).Mill described this principle as follows: According to the Greatest Happiness Principle ... The ultimate end, end, with reference to and for the sake of which all other things are desirable (whether we...
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