TASK

Identify from the text:

1. The definition of utility
2. The principle on which it is based
3. The way in which utility can affect policies

a) "that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness...or...to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness"

b) An action can be  “utility” when it brings happiness to the community.

c) A measure of government, may be said to be conformable to or dictated by the principle of utility, when in like manner the tendency which it has to augment the happiness of the community is greater than any which it has to diminish it.