Rule utilitarians say that we ought to do what would be prescribed by the RULES with the best consequences for people in society to try to follow. They claim this advantage of their view over act utilitarianism.
Rule utilitarians say that we ought to do what would be prescribed by the RULES with the best consequences for people in society to try to follow. They claim this advantage of their view over act utilitarianism.
They make the other claim too.
Rule utilitarians say that we ought to do what would be prescribed by the RULES with the best consequences for people in society to try to follow. They claim this advantage of their view over act utilitarianism.
They make the other claim too.
Rule utilitarians say that we ought to do what would be prescribed by the RULES with the best consequences for people in society to try to follow. They claim this advantage of their view over act utilitarianism.
RU avoids many of the bizarre consequences. For example, it supports a strict rule against sentencing an innocent person to death -- since a strict rule would be the most useful rule for judges to adopt.
Rule utilitarians also claim that it would have better consequences if people followed strict moral rules (instead of loose "rules of thumb" or the general rule to maximize good consequences).