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    Supports→Intrinsic goodness of an action is not a sufficient basis for rational choice in ordinary cases such as eating cake.

    If intrinsic goodness cannot be ascribed to eating the cake, intrinsic goodness alone cannot explain why choosing to eat it is rational.

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    Consider this example. To rationally choose to eat this piece of chocolate cake, I must think that eating the cake is good in some way. How can I regard it as good? It seems implausible to say that eating the cake is good in itself, of intrinsic value. It also seems implausible to say that it is good just because it satisfies a desire as such: for even if I was bulimic it might do that, but still not be regarded as good. A third suggestion, then, is that it can be seen as good because it is good

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