This might save you some time:<p>"According to the philosophy of Utilitarianism, the morally right thing to do is to choose the action that produces the most good.<p>I think the most good I can do is to focus on the Utility I offer to Users and not myself as an Engineer."
"the most good" is sometimes, often?, almost always?, difficult or even impossible to say, and subjective.<p>"the most good" can be one way to say "the ends justify the means" (which, just to be clear, they do not).<p>So the most good depends on how far out and indirect you try to look to judge the impact of a given act or decision or policy. And depends on who you are and what you value and what you consider your obligations. Most people are expert at arriving at the conclusions they want to arrive at. They are always, amazingly, doing the most good.<p>All in all, I think it's a fine goal to always aim for. The problem is there needs to be an accepted, defensible baseline framework for defining what is good, and what sorts of things are inarguably most important. And we don't have that. Certainly there are a few things I would class right up there with the right to breath, which most people don't even think about at all.<p>I would do the most good as I see it, but that would conflict with my employers policies and aims, and since not enough other people would have voted with me when drafting the definition of good, the employer would be in the legal right to continue doing bad and force me to do the same or fire me.