Considerations of Justice and their place in the ethical evaluation of human behavior is the focus of almost all criticism of utilitarianism as an adquate and self-sufficient criterion for determining the morality of human action.
In turn, the historical turns of utilitarianism—the move from a criterion which evaluates individual acts according to their utility to a criterion which evaluates acts in accordance with their conformity to de facto or ideal utilitarian rules, the presentation of utilitarianism as a logical thesis rather than a normative principle, the argument by some philosophers that the utilitarian consequences which Justify actions must be optimific in terms of happiness produced rather than mere pleasure experienced, and, by others, that the Justifying utilitarian consequences must be even more broadly construed as “instrinsically worthwhile“—all represent attempts by utilitarians to overcome, in one way or another, the charge of injustice.