Imagine living a life free of futility, misery, resentment, guilt, rejections and sorrows. A life, where you are free to fulfil all your desires and live with peace and prosperity. No hatred, No loathe, No despise, only happiness and peace. Well, that goes synonymous with the idea of Utilitarianism and Infinite Tsukuyomi.
People who've already watched Naruto Shippuden must aware of the term Infinite Tsukuyomi. The core of the whole anime was this idea of Infinite Tsukuyomi. For those who've no idea what Infinite Tsukuyomi is, lemme introduce you to the idea of Infinite Tsukuyomi in the first place. So Infinite Tsukuyomi was nothing but an illusion, a dream where people were entrapped, living their life of fantasies and desires. Everything they ever desired was achieved in this state of illusion. Reality is harsh and full of misery, so, living in a state of illusion with all desires fulfilled, all dreams achieved and no mark of war and bloodshed was the ultimate goal of Infinite Tsukuyomi.
The whole concept of Infinite Tsukuyomi was based on the idea of Utilitarianism. It simply represents a morality that fosters happiness and opposes everything that causes harm or unhappiness. It is a form of consequentialism, that holds the choice of producing the greatest good for the greatest number.
INFINITE TSUKUYOMI AND MADARA UCHIHA
Infinite Tsukuyomi is the genjutsu that entraps the entire world in an illusion, where people are enslaved in a dream. Madara dreamt of ending the wars and bloodshed of the whole shinobi universe so that everyone could live a peaceful life. Well, this wasn't possible in a world full of hatred and despise. Later he discovered that by the possession of Rinnegan and Ten tails, he can summon the Divine tree and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi and then after entrapping the whole world in a dream-like state, fulfilling their all desires, he could finally bring an end to their miseries. All this costs the absorption of their chakra. According to Madara, this was the idea of creating a perfect world.
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Perhaps the idea of Infinite Tsukuyomi sounds quite fascinating and interesting like living a dream life, fulfilling all desires, no sorrows, and so on and so forth. But don't you think this kind of happiness is unjust. Madara wanted to make peace in the whole world without caring for the freedom and choices of others.
This whole idea considers happiness as something with an intrinsic value and it's for the happiness of people everything goes fair. Their consent, will, choices, etc don't matter at all. All that matters is the state of happiness though achieved in the form of an illusion. In simple words, it was like living a dream life with no will and choices. It completely exterminates the concept of ''Individual Rights''.
It may be a reason-based approach to provide happiness but it costs the liberty and will of the one undergoing the same.
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