Using Utilitarian principles what should a leader do if a lifeboat could only carry 20 people and there are 30?

teaches us
that the right action is the one that creates the greatest possible happiness for the greatest
number of people.  In other words, we have to measure how happy each course of action makes
people (measuring both how many people are made happy and the intensity of their potential
happiness) and choose the one that creates the greatest total happiness.

From a strictly utilitarian point of view, whoever is in charge of the lifeboat would need to
look...