Utilitarianism applied to post war Iraq.

Utilitarianism provides us with a moral basis for judging actions, in promoting the idea that what is good is that which provides us the greatest good or happiness for the greatest number. In this essay, I will apply the moral system of utilitarianism towards the situation of post-war Iraq, and suggest a solution to the problems that face the region. Before we seek to apply moral utilitarianism to the political situation of post-war Iraq, we …showed first 75 words of 978 total…

…showed last 75 words of 978 total…is certainly an admirable one, and is quite moral from the utilitarian approach. Yet half the task is yet to be done - "reconstruction" of Iraq is not conductive to moral utilitarianism, as this would inevitably collapse into a struggle between the three ethnic groups for power - the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis must be liberated from each other, if the greatest good for then greatest number - and freedom - is to be achieved.