Which ethical theory suggest tat actions are moral if their primary function is to promote the best interest of others
Answer: Utilitarianism
Explanation
Utilitarianism, in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill according to which an action (or type of action) is right if it tends to promote happiness or pleasure and wrong if it tends to produce unhappiness .
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