Utilitarianism - is an ethical theory that supports the goodness of enjoyment and bases the

judgment of proper activity on the utility of the behavior's results. This implies that enjoyment
is desirable and that the utility of an activity determines its goodness. Combining these notions,
utilitarianism asserts that one's action and behavior are morally just inasmuch as they are
focused on the experience of which refers to the utility of the results of one's action and
conduct. We employ a utilitarian approach to argument when we claim that the current
government's drug war policy is acceptable since doing so improves public safety. Because we
contend that certain individual rights can be given up for the greater enjoyment of the many, it
is utilitarian.
Jeremy Bentham makes the initial claim in his work An Introduction to the Principles of Morals
and Legislation (1789) that human acts are controlled by two "sovereign masters" that he refers
to as pleasure and pain. We are born with these "masters," who tie our decisions to their
throne, to guide us in making moral judgments about what is right and wrong. The utility
principle deals with how we are subject to these two independent masters: pleasure and pain.
The idea behind it is that our behaviors are motivated by our desire for pleasure and our desire
to avoid suffering. It would be like arguing that we only act in a way that makes us happy if, and
only if, doing so results in more happiness than sadness. This implies that it is important to
consider if the activities we do actually make us happier rather than just enjoying them.
Bentham equates happiness with pleasure after identifying the propensity toward pleasure and
the avoidance of suffering as the principle of utility. Achieving PLEASURE IS THE RIGHT ACTION,
while causing PAIN IS THE WRONG ACTION.