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Act utilitarianism, in some of its more popular forms, is often taken to be a perfectly straightforward doctrine. Critics of the doctrine frequently claim that, in certain cases at least, act utilitarianism is morally wrong. It is said that act utilitarianism implies that a certain act would be right in certain circumstances, but the considered, impartial judgment of reasonable moralists is that the act would not be right. Thus it is assumed that act utilitarianism has clearcut consequences, and it is alleged that some of these consequences are morally objectionable.
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Feldman, F. (1975). World Utilitarianism. In: Lehrer, K. (eds) Analysis and Metaphysics. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9098-8_14
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