User:VladikVP/Exclusive utilitarianism

Exclusive utilitarianism is a form of utilitarianism which seeks to recognise that all groups of people are fundamentally driven by what is preferable to the individuals which make up the group. Exclusive utilitarianism further operates on the premise that the conditions for the well-being and pleasure of some individuals may contradict the conditions for the well-being of other individuals.

To make up for this fundamental contradiction in utilitarianism, exclusive utilitarianism restricts all "right" or moral conditions for the pleasure of an individual to those conditions which involve that very same individual. For example, under exclusive utilitarianism, it would be immoral or otherwise invalid to have the condition of the death of one individual to be one of the conditions that satisfy the pleasure of a second individual. The condition of someone's death is invalid because it does not involve the individual who wishes death upon the first individual. To the contrary, if one of the conditions for the happiness of a first individual is the happiness of a second individual, that condition would not be counted towards the first individual's pleasure either.

On the other hand, conditions that only involve the individual, such as eating and participation in leaisure activities, are fully elligible for being counted as satisfying the pleasure