As Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy (2011) argue, it is in the best interests of the community to employ police officers in order to thwart morally the behavior of some individuals such as thieves, murderers, rapists and other criminal elements in society whose actions result in infliction of pain on members of the community, (Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy, 2011). The behavior of criminal elements in society results in more pain than collective benefits and pleasures thus the need for law enforcement agents to avert the level of crime and lower the amount of collective pain inflicted on the society. However, in some circumstances, there are some paradoxical situations when a certain action may inflict more pain than happiness yet be regarded as a morally right action rather than a morally wrong action as per the ideologies of the utilitarianism consequentialism ethical theory. Such paradoxes result in the second ethical theory that is regarded as
As Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy (2011) argue, it is in the best interests of the community to employ police officers in order to thwart morally the behavior of some individuals such as thieves, murderers, rapists and other criminal elements in society whose actions result in infliction of pain on members of the community, (Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy, 2011). The behavior of criminal elements in society results in more pain than collective benefits and pleasures thus the need for law enforcement agents to avert the level of crime and lower the amount of collective pain inflicted on the society. However, in some circumstances, there are some paradoxical situations when a certain action may inflict more pain than happiness yet be regarded as a morally right action rather than a morally wrong action as per the ideologies of the utilitarianism consequentialism ethical theory. Such paradoxes result in the second ethical theory that is regarded as