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pdonis on Jan 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I am not a utilitarian

> Systems of morals can all be expressed as rules, outcomes, or goals

I have no problem with this, but utilitarians claim that utilitarianism is an alternative to deontology. If your statement here is true, then utilitarians are wrong in that claim.

randallsquared on Jan 24, 2022 [–]

These are just different levels of abstraction. You can write bel in Blub, but that doesn't mean they aren't in some sense alternatives.

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