Utilitarianism's underlying idea is the morality of action turns on how it figures in advancing human happiness and Mill's initial statement is, "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." In our dilemma we turn to Mill's theory of the right--to his view about what makes an action right or wrong. First we must consider that this is a moral question in a way that the issue of what is intrinsically good is not. Only the conduct of a moral agent can be right or wrong. Mill would consider our dilemma right if, of those acts available in the circumsta

As Mill describes the utilitarian morality as recognizing in man the power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of others, it would be considered a wasted sacrifice as the B variable poses no change in the sum total of happiness where as variable A does. If it is happiness essentially that we are striving for then the ends would be the married woman and she would increase the happiness of X.

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