Utilitarians believe that
a. knowledge, friendship, and aesthetic satisfaction are intrinsically valuable (or inherently good).
b. we can predict with certainty the future consequences of our actions.
c. an action that leads to unhappiness is morally right if any other action that you could have performed instead
would have brought about even more unhappiness.
d. an action can't be right if the people who are made happy by it are outnumbered by the people who are made
unhappy by it.
c
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