RULE UTILITARIANISM Flashcards
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RULE BETTER
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Rule utilitarianism offers a quicker approach to decision-making, recognising that case-by-case decision-making is unnecessary and very time-consuming. However, there can be situations where different utilitarian rules and principles clash and a different approach would be needed to decide between the rules.
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RULE BETTER
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Rule utilitarianism allows us to make rules that uphold justice and rights, two things that may be lost in individual cases for the act utilitarian. The McCloskey example, where a sheriff chooses to arrest an innocent man for the greater good, would be allowed by an act utilitarian but cannot be justified by a rule utilitarian as persistent unjust acts would undermine justice itself.
