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1		-==Utilitarianism FW==
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4		-====The standard is maximizing utility. ====
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7		-====First, reductionism.====
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10		-====Brain studies prove personal identity doesn't exist. ====
11		-**Parfit 84**^^^^Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984). – Hebron AL
12		-Some recent medical cases provide striking evidence in favour of the Reductionist View. Human
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14		-, and can receive two different answers written by this person's two hands.
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17		-====In the absence of personal identity, only end states can matter ====
18		-**Shoemaker 99**^^^^Shoemaker, David (Dept of Philosophy, U Memphis). "Utilitarianism and Personal Identity." The Journal of Value Inquiry 33: 183–199, 1999. http://www.csun.edu/~~ds56723/jvipaper.pdf - Hebron AL
19		-Extreme reductionism might lend support to utilitarianism in the following way. Many people claim
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21		-, would be the most plausible. Utilitarianism is just such a theory.
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24		-====Second, moral uncertainty means that extinction comes first under any moral system.====
25		-**Bostrom 1**^^^^Nick Bostrom, 2001 prof of Philosophy, Oxford University ~~ Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001 March, JStor – Hebron AL
26		-~~Brackets for clarity~~ These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest~~s~~ an
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28		-to increase the probability that the future will contain a lot of value.
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31		-====Third, respect for human worth would justify util. ====
32		-**Cummiskey 90**^^^^Cummiskey, David. Associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. "Kantian Consequentiaism." Ethics 100 (April 1990), University of Chicago. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381810 - Hebron AL
33		-We must not obscure the issue by characterizing this type of case as the sacrifice
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35		-a fundamental equality that dictates that some must sometimes give way for the sake
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38		-====Fourth, the very nature of the US government is to maximize utility. ====
39		-**Abraham Lincoln 1864**^^^^Lincoln, Abraham (16^^th^^ President of the US, Solid beard, Stopped slavery, Posthumous National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee). Letter to A.G. Hodges. 4 April 1864. – Hebron AL
40		-I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is
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42		-should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together.
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45		-====Fifth, universalizability justifies util. ====
46		-**Singer 93**^^^^Peter Singer, "Practical Ethics," Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 13-14 – Hebron AL
47		-The universal aspect of ethics, I suggest, does provide a persuasive, although
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49		-the course of action most likely to maximize the interests of those affected.

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