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    It is not the case that Justice, as a species of duty under Mill's account, inherits the indirect character of sanction utilitarianism.

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    • 1.Mill treats justice as grounded in a distinct sentiment—the impulse to defend rights—that operates independently of utility calculations.
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    • 2.If justice has its own psychological and normative basis in rights-protection, it cannot simply inherit its character from sanction utilitarianism.
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    • 3.A species can possess distinctive properties not derived from its genus, so justice-as-duty need not share duty's indirect structure.
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    • 1.Brandt and Lyons argue Mill's Utilitarianism Chapter 5 treats justice as lexically prior to other duties, not merely a subspecies of them.
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    • 2.If justice carries stronger, near-absolute obligatory force than ordinary duty, it resists reduction to the sanction-based indirect framework governing duty generally.
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    • 1.Mill's account of duty is an indirect form of utilitarianism (sanction utilitarianism).
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    • 2.Justice is a species of duty under Mill's account.
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