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Ima Utilitarian rejects exceptionless norms because
{ 1 } - some kinds of action are inherently bad.
{ 2 } - she was taught exceptionless norms when she was a child.
{ 3 } - following exceptionless norms can bring about the best results.
{ 4 } - they lead to inconsistencies and inhumane results.
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Ima Utilitarian rejects exceptionless norms because
{ 1 } - some kinds of action are inherently bad.
{ 2 } - she was taught exceptionless norms when she was a child.
{ 3 } - following exceptionless norms can bring about the best results.
{ 4 } - they lead to inconsistencies and inhumane results.
This is a view that her nonconsequentialist opponents take -- and it would tend toward the opposite conclusion.
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Ima Utilitarian rejects exceptionless norms because
{ 1 } - some kinds of action are inherently bad.
{ 2 } - she was taught exceptionless norms when she was a child.
{ 3 } - following exceptionless norms can bring about the best results.
{ 4 } - they lead to inconsistencies and inhumane results.
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Ima Utilitarian rejects exceptionless norms because
{ 1 } - some kinds of action are inherently bad.
{ 2 } - she was taught exceptionless norms when she was a child.
{ 3 } - following exceptionless norms can bring about the best results.
{ 4 } - they lead to inconsistencies and inhumane results.
This is the reasoning that rule utilitarians give -- and it leads them to the opposite conclusion.
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Ima Utilitarian rejects exceptionless norms because
{ 1 } - some kinds of action are inherently bad.
{ 2 } - she was taught exceptionless norms when she was a child.
{ 3 } - following exceptionless norms can bring about the best results.
{ 4 } - they lead to inconsistencies and inhumane results.
She claims that a consistent moral system can't have more than one exceptionless norm -- since otherwise it would sometimes lead to contradictions.
And she claims that following a norm like "Stealing is always wrong" will have bad consequences on human beings in unusual cases -- since a father might have to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family.
She says that those who believe in exceptionless norms worship rules and care about rules more than about human beings.
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