| This thesis revolves around the fact that consequential action based approaches to decision making are impoverished and can be detrimental to well-being because they fail to fully comprehend integrity. I will show how this is the case in two ways; first I will explain Bernard Williams' critique of utilitarianism as a personal morality to show how utilitarianism fails to understand individual human integrity. Secondly, and most importantly, I will argue that the current tool used by the United States government for most regulatory and policy making decisions, Cost-Benefit-Analysis (CBA), is also an impoverished action based approach that has the potential to pose a serious threat to the United States government's integrity. I will conclude by offering some suggestions to change CBA to make it more agent orientated, which better fits the United States government's projects and commitments, and therefore, drastically reduces its threat to the government's integrity. |
