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    Challenges→Impartiality is constitutive of the Utility principle, not merely a supplement to it

    If impartiality were constitutive of utility, violations of impartiality would be logical contradictions rather than moral failures—an implausibly strong claim Mill's text does not support.

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    Logical contradiction(as what the stratified framework avoids)
    When two statements cannot both be true at the same time because they directly oppose each other. For example, 'it is raining' and 'it is not raining' are contradictory.
    Mill(as the subject being discussed)
    John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
    Moral failure(as the phenomenon the doctrine struggles to explain)
    When someone does something they know is wrong; failing to act according to your own moral beliefs.
    constitutive of(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that is essential to making something what it is—if you remove it, the thing is no longer that thing.
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    (Attributed to utilitarianism as a core commitment)
    The requirement to give equal weight to the welfare of all people regardless of one's personal relationship to them
    utility(Mill's qualification distinguishing his conception of utility from narrower hedonistic or preference-based interpretations.)
    Utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being — not mere immediate pleasure or preference satisfaction.

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