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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by jonfw on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:41PM (#20831125)
> barring any other activity with greater utility

I can think of a number of activities that would provide greater utility than attemting to impregnate as many women as possible.

I'm not a pure utilitarian and I see a distinction between the concepts of morality and utility. Mostly because I'm not capable of gauging utility all the time, so I can fall back on broader moral principles.

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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by rhn_mk1 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:52PM (#20831927)
Thank you for the answer. It seems we have the same view, but we speak about it differently: while an action may be moral or not, being a prerogative only matters in practice if it can be assessed.

The difference is that I don't mind calling even the smallest, least important actions, which have the least chance to be the best thing to do at the moment, prerogatives.

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