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My thanks to an anonymous reviewer for this journal for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Thanks also to Paul McNamara for his remarks on that version.
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Goble, L. Utilitarian deontic logic. Philosophical Studies 82, 317–357 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355312
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