I think this is a crucial point. Even when people *want* to act in line with utilitarian morality, actually doing so is often very difficult: Maximizing doesn't come naturally & requires time, effort, ability, information.
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Yes, agreed. The Oxford utilitarianism scale extended the study of utilitarian psychology beyond instrumental harm to impartial beneficence. http://www.jimaceverett.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Kahane-Everett-et-al.-2018-Psychological-Review-2D-Model-Utilitarian-Psychology.pdf … But this epistemic aspect has so far received less attention.
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Hm though a meta utilitarian might acknowledge that the persistence and cost of acting according to utilitarian principles is too costly to expect individuals to do alone. Maybe those decisions are better left to government regulators and/or moral leaders.
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I agree individuals shouldn't do it all alone, but even if others figure out how to do the most good, you still need a certain element of persistence to identify who is reliable/who to trust; and you also need intellectual humility to defer to them
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Isn’t deontology just intellectually lazy utilitarianism?
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Cf. "Across 8 studies, using self-report, behavioral performance, and neuroanatomical measures, we show that individual differences in reasoning ability and cognitive style of thinking are positively associated with a preference for utilitarian solutions"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329864448_Reasoning_supports_utilitarian_resolutions_to_moral_dilemmas_across_diverse_measures …
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