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Mill's account of duty, justice, and rights is not purely utilitarian at the level of defining those concepts

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1.The relationships among duty, justice, and rights do not themselves introduce utilitarian elements
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2.Utilitarian considerations enter only at the level of determining when sanctions ought to be applied and when claims ought to be enforced
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1.Mill defines justice itself as a name for certain classes of moral rules vital to human well-being, grounding the concept in utility from the outset.
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2.If the selection criteria for which duties and rights exist are determined by utility, then utility is constitutive of those concepts, not merely applied at the enforcement stage.
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