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The Too-Demanding Objection

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The too-demanding objection: if every act must maximize the world's happiness, then dinners out, hobbies, and gifts to your own children become wrongdoing.

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Every dollar of the architect's salary could fight famine. Taken strictly, the theory calls her concert ticket a moral failure — every time.