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-In act utilitarianism you are meant to place yourself outside the situation, everyone is meant to be treated equal.
-This means that special relationships, like parents and child, aren't taken in to consideration.
-This can be hard to do as we wish to protect those more vulnerable then ourselves such as the elderly or ill.
-This is from Robert Bowie
-This problem is solved by rule utilitarianism, which allows special relationships.
-It also allows us to place the disadvantaged and vulnerable above others.
-This is from Robert Bowie.
-On the other hand it can be seen as elitist to judge some pleasures over others.
-Henry Sidgwick asked how are we to distinguish between listening to Bach and watching Shakespeare.
-"Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you; they may have different tastes"- Oscar Wilde.
-Mill's utilitarianism distinguishes between higher and lower pleasures.
-He also concentrates on happiness rather then pleasure. Happiness is an emotion rather then a bodily sensation like pleasure.