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    Supports→Utilitarianism, properly understood, can accommodate special obligations and personal concerns.

    Given these limits, individuals produce better overall outcomes by focusing on associates rather than the world at large.

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    This worry about the demands of utilitarianism is not easy to assess. One might wonder how to interpret and whether to accept the psychological realist constraint. If the constraint is relative to people’s actual psychologies, then it represents a potentially conservative constraint on moral theorizing that one might well reject. If the constraint is relative to possible or ideal psychology, then it is not clear that even a highly revisionary moral theory need flout the constraint. Then there is

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