Alexis Stewart, the salty daughter of homemaking goddess Martha Stewart, in a new book, writes that her mother strived for television perfection but was not a perfect parent. If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again, writes Stewart, 46. I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head. Martha does everything better. You can't win!
utilitarianism. noun. 1  The belief that the value of a thing or an action is determined by its utility. 2  The ethical theory proposed by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill that all action should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
Act utilitarianism is the belief that an action becomes morally right when it produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people, while Rule utilitarianism is the belief that the moral correctness of an action depends on the correctness of the rules that allows it to achieve the greatest good. 2.