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Extreme Measures

Extreme measures is about ethics. How far is someone willing to go, and how much we are willing to sacrifice, in order to cure the world's ills. Utilitarianism is defined as the moral philosophy that says we should act in such ways as to make the greatest number of people as happy as possible. In the movie, Dr. Lawrence Myrick is utilitarian. He is taking healthy homeless people into his lab and performing experiments on them for research to help people who are not able to walk, to try and walk again. He thinks these homeless people will not be missed because they basically have no purpose in life. Although, Dr. Myrick's intentions are good, he isn't going about it the right way. He's taking people against their will, their "free will."
Consequentialism says that we should do whatever maximizes good consequences. It doesn't in itself matter what kind of thing we do. What matters is that we maximize good results. This is what he's trying to do, he's testing out procedures on......


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