An act is obligatory under sanction utilitarianism if and only if failing to perform it warrants punishment, leaving no principled space for the supererogatory distinct from the merely non-punishable.
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A conception of duty, justice, and rights that makes the deontic status of conduct depend upon the utility of sanctioning that conduct in some way.
supererogatory(Used to identify a moral category that act utilitarianism cannot accommodate, since act utilitarianism makes the optimal act obligatory, leaving no room for acts that exceed duty.)
Acts that go beyond what is morally obligatory; they are praiseworthy but not required.
warrant(Toulmin's model of argumentation)
An implicit premise that an argument depends on, which licenses the move from evidence to conclusion; in this context, the unstated assumption that normal misdemeanor penalties are insufficient as a deterrent.