In the case of Cassandra and chemotherapy, the central moral tension is Cassandra having her life preserved and having being strapped down to receive the replacement of the tube used to administer the chemotherapy drugs. She wants to protect her human life especially her adolescent life when it has a disease, she just doesn’t want drugs going into her body. An adolescent like Cassandra wants to do what they think is right for their body. Another concern is the doctors having the values of being able to make informed decisions about her medical care. Perhaps their not really going to listen to a minor when it comes to their health. For example, she still has the Chemotherapy scenario she never wanted to go into her body. But, however, in this …show more content…
In other words the Greatest Happiness Principle holds that action that appears right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and wrong as they tend to produce unhappiness. But he instead states that “Pleasure and freedom from pain (or unhappiness) are the only desirable ends.” (Alex, “Ethics and the Goodlife summaries”). From Cassandra point of view of the greatest happiness principle, it helped her make a decision by her knowing she had freedom and maybe having a desirable ending. She basically pointed out the big question of what we ought to do and what shall we do. On the other hand “some unjust actions are permissible” according to Mill (“Study Guide: John Stuart Mill’s Ethics”). She cannot always predict what the consequences of her actions would be. She would just have to take a chance in order to help herself or just don’t do anything at all. Also the greatest happiness principle is the act to produce the greatest happiness meaning “higher pleasure” for the greatest numbers. That means that utility has to be increasing and pain has to decrease. Mill provides a system which is preferred by a majority and is considered the action with a higher quality result and thus would be more moral to perform than the action with a lower quality result. When looking back at the case you can see that Cassandra was trying to avoid or decrease the pain that she would face with getting the chemotherapy because it is tough and hard to go through and she didn’t wasn’t to feel that, so she focused on the utility part more. She would have had to experience the utility of outcomes to a certain extent in order to properly weigh them. Overall the moral theory is each adolescent should have a right to have a say so on what goes on with their body, it should not be about the maturity of a minor. It should be about the