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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

22407	Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B]
	Full Idea: Utilitarianism cannot hope to make sense, at any serious level, of integrity.
	From: Bernard Williams (A Critique of Utilitarianism [1973], 1)
	A reaction: There will be obvious problems with this. 'My whole platoon got killed, but looking on the bright side, I preserved my integrity'. Once a theory commits entirely to one value, it then has no way to make sense of rival values.