If backward-looking considerations reliably track patterns that produce superior consequences when institutionalized, utilitarianism has systematic, not merely incidental, grounds to endorse them.

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Backward-looking considerations(as used in ethics and philosophy of punishment): Reasons for doing something based on what happened in the past, like punishing someone because they committed a crime (rather than because punishing them will prevent future crimes).
Institutionalized(as describing a systematic way of achieving recognition, contrasted with Sartre's view): Established as a formal, official, or widespread practice within a society or system.
Systematic grounds(as used in philosophical argument): Deep, fundamental reasons that are part of a consistent theory, not just accidental or lucky reasons that happen to work out.
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

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