Utilitarianism is Good

As the definition of utilitarianism (I'll now refurr to it as UTM) the needs of the majority outway the needs of the minority which means if 5 people are raping one single person that means the sexual needs of these 5 out way the resistance of the 1. As I had already pointed out and my opponent has ignored, utilitarianism by my opponents own definition makes the distinction for varying degrees of pain/unhappiness and pleasure/happiness. Quoting his definition : Utilitarianism- a theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number. The term "greatest happiness" used in the definition suggests there are lesser forms of happiness and thus varying degrees of happiness and unhappiness which must be balanced for the largest possible gain of happiness over unhappiness. In the case of rape the pain caused by a lifetime of psychological damage on a single person by far outweighs the momentary sexual pleasure of 5 people. Furthermore an environment where gang rape is rampant would undoubtedly cause fear and unhappiness among the people. My opponent's argument is the unfortunate result of his miscomprehension of the definition he himself provided. My opponet just goes on to say slavery is no longer an issue whhich makes my arguement irrelivent but that is irrelivent, because my point I've made is that slavery has had a big impact on American History and the World's. So my opponet just seems to conceede my arguement. I did indeed make a point that slavery today is no longer condoned by society, however I also pointed out that a person denied his freedom and rights is simply too much pain to justify the mere convenience of his owner, a point which again my opponent has ignored. Furthermore my opponent goes on to point out that slavery had significant negative effects throughout American history which actually supports my cause that slavery is not a utilitarian ideal, because utilitarianism seeks happiness and not the unhappiness caused by the war my opponent claims resulted from slavery. 3. But as you see the Muslums hate Israel and the Jews, even the Iranian constitution states that it must destroy the big satan the U.S. and the Little Satan Israel. When you have something this powerful and you conect UTM to it then boom you get the second hollicost and WW3. Even Muslums are teaching their children to hate Jews with TV shows. , , , and 't be shy and take a look at some of the vidoes. 4. Lets take another history lession, back in the 1900s in Germany. Hitler commited the hollicost. By killing millions of Jews and it's been prooven that Christianity is the world's largest relgion, then it's Islam. I'll tackle both these arguments at the same time since they appear to be related. My opponent in these arguments appears to assume that killing a member of one religion (or perhaps just Jews…) makes every person of another religion happy. An assertion I can definitely say is false. If it were true that killing Jews made Christians happy then why did America, a predominantly Christian nation, fight Nazi Germany and rescue Jews? While extremist factions do exist, a majority of people are moderates. Evidence of this is that if extremists were the majority the world would be a less tolerant place for homosexuals whom are reviled by both major Christian [1] and Islamic [2] faiths, and yet the world has become more tolerant of homosexuality today than it has been in the past.[3] Conclusion : I have refuted all my opponents points, which were rather weak points due to my opponents unfortunate miscomprehension of what utilitarianism stands for, despite having defined it himself. Furthermore my opponent has simply ignored a couple of my points. I have successfully defended my position and believe that I have soundly won this debate. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org... [3]http://www.pinknews.co.uk...