Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 176 short lesson, about 20 seconds
First Defense: The Cases Are Rigged
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The idea
The first utilitarian defense: the nightmare cases smuggle in false certainty — in the real world, frame-ups leak, and leaked frame-ups wreck far more happiness than they save.
In practice
Price the sheriff's scapegoat honestly: discovery, ruined trust in courts, emboldened mobs. Real arithmetic, the defense says, votes with justice.
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