My own humble opinion is that, whether or not Utilitarians can win arguments (and they totally can), Utilititarianism simply can't work in the real world. Once you start coming after random people for "the greater good," those who care about them will raise hell.
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People would arm themselves to the gills to fend off the organ-harvesters that would prey on local populations after any multi-casualty incident. "Multiple fatality crash on I-94! Hide the kids, get the guns!"
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That just means that those utilitarians fudged their math. Every critique of utilitarianism invokes better utilitarianism.
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Real utilitarianism has never been tried.
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Did we just use utilitarianism to make a case for a deontological approach? Or is it a "utilitarianism for me, deontological for thee" sort of conclusion?
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Whatever works best :)
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