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> Only if you live in a moral vacuum.

Utilitarianism is a perfectly valid moral theory. Not all ethics are deontological.




The utilitarian case isn't as clear-cut as you seem to think it is.


Deontological ethics aren't clear-cut either. That's why ethics is still philosophy and not science.




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