In Mill's essay on utilitarianism, Mill notes that a large number of people misunderstand utilitarianism as having utility and pleasure together in the same idea and concept. In fact, Mill states that utility is described as pleasure and the absence of pain. Mill looks at the relationship between utility and happiness and decides that utility could be seen as the principle of greatest happiness. This principle holds that “actions are right to the extent that they tend to promote happiness, wrong to the extent that they tend to produce the opposite of happiness. By happiness we mean pleasure and the absence of pain; for unhappiness pain and the deprivation of pleasure”. ." Pleasure and the absence of pain are the only things that people desire to obtain and maintain. Therefore, events and situations are desirable only if they are a source of pleasures and a source of happiness; these actions towards events are good only when lead towards a higher level of happiness, and bad when they decrease that level. Next, Mill examines the idea that it is degrading to human beings to say that the meaning of life ...