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Utilitarianism - Part 4: In the fire of critique
Would you sacrifice one innocent person if it meant saving many more? This is not a philosopher’s riddle—it’s the pressure point at the heart of utilitarianism. The theory’s greatest power is also its greatest vulnerability: it will not blink at the arithmetic of sacrifice. Critics have seized on these hard cases for centuries.
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