The perils of a failure to analyze

I tend to agree with Utilitarianism, and specifically the Greatest Happiness Principle as concepts, but I feel that it is difficult to present arguments for Utilitarianism that don’t either read like a list of hypothetical “pros” that would happen were everyone to act in a perfectly utilitarian fashion or are based off of refuting a possible  objection to the doctrine (most all of which I feel Mill already addressed sufficiently in what we’ve read,) so I am at somewhat of a loss of what to do here. The most I can say is that we must always be conscious not to take things to extremes to avoid situations in which one might be denied personal choice or, in an even more extreme example, get in to a situation similar to that in the Ursula K. Le Guin short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.

 

My sincere apologies for the seemingly low-effort post, I’ve spent the better part of four hours drawing a series of increasingly frustrating blanks.