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The value I see in it is giving one a reason to bite the bullet. The rule of using the least intuition possible is not something I came across, I made it up because I found it odd/inconsistent how people who accept that they ultimately want happiness, just throw that away when maximising utility in ...

There is plausible grounding in allowing the insane to do evil in order to be happy, if we accept the aforementioned base intuition. However, in real life, that would affect others and thus minimise utility. I had more of an ethical theory perspective than a practical ethics one (concerning the legi...

Has this meta-ethical justification for Utilitarianism been made? We often hear criticism of Utilitarianism being made through examples of when a Utilitarian choice would appear heinous - e.g. the 'Utilitarian Monster'. The reply from Utilitarians tends to be that the criticiser has miscalculated t...