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    Supports→Consequentialism cannot properly recognize the value of friendship

    Any framework that treats one's friend merely as a locally efficient conduit for global welfare-maximization fails to recognize the friend as such, only their instrumental contribution.

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    Instrumental(philosophy of law)
    Serving as a tool or means to achieve something else, rather than being valuable in itself.
    Recognize as such(as used in philosophy of friendship and relationships)
    To truly understand and appreciate something for what it actually is, not just for what it can do for you.
    Utilitarianism(One of Sidgwick's three methods of ethics)
    The view that an individual self-evidently ought to aim at the maximum balance of happiness for all sentient beings present and future, whatever the cost to herself; also called Universalistic Hedonism
    Welfare-maximization(as used in ethics, related to utilitarianism)
    The idea of making as many people as happy, healthy, or well-off as possible, treating well-being like a number you're trying to make as large as you can.

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    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.

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