Seems all versions of utilitarianism suffer from the fact that we can't ever know what is best for the greatest number of people. One could argue that sacrificing one life to save many is bad because it causes fear, but how do we know this would be worse than many people dying?
Folks often confuse normative, prescriptive, and descriptive versions of utilitarianism. The 'monism' is usually only advocated at the normative level, not the prescriptive level -- which can be much more pluralistic: https://www.lri.fr/~dragice/utilitarianism/faq.html#NORMATIVE …
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