Programme C produces the highest total - the greatest 'social welfare' if welfare is taken to
be the sum of individual welfares. Programme A leads to greater happiness for a majority
of people than Programme B. B makes more people happy than A or B, and it leads to less
suffering - another possible criterion - but less total happiness than C, and it leaves a
majority worse off than A. The question of which constitutes the 'greatest happiness of the
greatest number' is unclear. The problem is that the interests of the members of a
community may conflict. It becomes, as a result, difficult to claim that any resolution clearly
represents the interest of a community rather than of a faction which is part of it.