Mill: Take Two

Well this is the price you pay for working ahead (yay I read the wrong chapter).
Utilitarianism and the Happiness Theory are all about the root of morality in the form of what is beneficial to the most people. “Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof.” (184)
He states that the “end of human action is necessarily also the standard of morality.
It made a lot of sense to me when he said the following: “power of sacrificing their own greatest good for the good of other is a sacrifice which if it does not increase the sum of total happiness it considered wasted” (194).
He explains how there are two utilities, public and private. He also states how the multiplication of happiness is the object of virtue.
One of the objections he countered was that it was too complicated and took too much time to correctly calculate how many people were being harmed and to what degree. He countered by referring to the Bible. Are all Christians supposed to look up everything in the Bible before they act? No. It just becomes a way of thinking.
Proof: “No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness” (210).