The Universalizability Trap: Rational Agency, the Authority of Ought-Claims, and the Limits of Utilitarian Justifications for Killing
This article defends a formal argument concerning whether a group of rational agents ( A , B , and C ) can be rationally justified in killing a fellow rational agent ( D ) on utilitarian grounds. I do not contest the utilitarian calculus, and I do not claim that utilitarians derive morality from instrumental...