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Journal Article
Switching Away from Utilitarianism: The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment
2016
Overview
Our moral motivations might include a drive towards maximizing overall welfare, consistent with an ethical theory called \"utilitarianism.\" However, people show non-utilitarian judgments in domains as diverse as healthcare decisions, income distributions, and penal laws. Rather than these being deviations from a fundamentally utilitarian psychology, we suggest that our moral judgments are generally non-utilitarian, even for cases that are typically seen as prototypically utilitarian. We show two separate deviations from utilitarianism in such cases: people do not think maximizing welfare is required (they think it is merely acceptable, in some circumstances), and people do not think that equal welfare tradeoffs are even acceptable. We end by discussing how utilitarian reasoning might play a restricted role within a non-utilitarian moral psychology.
