The town, a strip of shops, restaurants and tour operators' offices in utilitarian concrete boxes, was bustling if uninspiring.
Still, they're nothing if not utilitarian, and they'll certainly find their niche in the workforce.
However, even if a utilitarian reading of Godwin is accepted, it remains the case that the doctrine is strictly a precept of individual moral judgment.
If the utilitarian Constitutional Code was directed "for the use of all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions", as its title page declared, the political positions it embraced were recommended, in the first instance, for adoption at home.
Even if the utilitarian maximisation of benefit is thought to be ethically sound, how to implement a system based on this criterion is not ethically straightforward, and requires ethical reflection about what counts as good stewardship, and about the moral obligation to demonstrate transparency, accountability, fairness and trustworthiness in the allocation of scarce resources.
What about the following maxim however : "any means should be deemed appropriate if they serve the utilitarian ideal "? Utilitarians will claim that an ideal public should at least consider utilitarianism a plausible doctrine.
Second, even if we consider only this particular type of moral context, serotonin disposes people to make judgments that are less utilitarian only if by utilitarianism we mean a very simple version of Act Utilitarianism, understood not only as a criterion of rightness but also as an explicit decision procedure.
Interior appointments include generous, if not particularly utilitarian, swaths of leather.
