According to Bentham, ethical "hard choices":
A) can be solved by simply counting up all the pleasures and pains involved.
B) can only be resolved by giving up utilitarianism.
C) are not common enough to be important.
D) are caused by selfishness.
E) can be solved only by moral relativism.

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Bentham believed that ethical decisions could be solved by performing a calculus of the pleasures and pains involved. He believed that the option that produced the greatest amount of pleasure and the least amount of pain was the morally correct choice. Therefore, A is the best answer.

According to Bentham, Ethical "Hard Choices