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    Sanction utilitarianism faces an infinite regress of sanctions

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    • 1.Mill's account defines wrongness via sanctions, making 'ought to sanction' itself subject to the same sanction-dependent analysis recursively.
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    • 2.Each iteration generates a new normative question about sanctioning the previous level, and no terminal level exists where sanction-talk bottoms out.
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    • 3.Without a foundational non-sanction-based criterion to halt the regress, the account lacks determinate content at every level simultaneously.
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    • 1.Bradley's critique in Ethical Studies shows that defining obligation through external enforcement displaces rather than grounds the original normative fact.
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    • 2.If the rightness of a sanction must itself be sanctioned to be obligatory, then no first-order duty is ever genuinely established, only deferred indefinitely.
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    • 1.Sanction utilitarianism holds that any action is wrong to which one ought to attach sanctions
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    • 2.Imposing sanctions is itself a kind of action
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    • 3.The general criterion implies that the rightness of applying a sanction must be evaluated by asking whether it would be right to sanction the failure to apply that sanction
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    Moreover, sanction utilitarianism appears to have disadvantages that act utilitarianism does not. One such problem derives from its hybrid structure. Sanction utilitarianism is impurely indirect. For while it provides an indirect utilitarian theory of duty, the account it provides of when sanctions should be applied to conduct is direct—it depends upon the consequences of applying sanctions. Sanction utilitarianism provides an indirect utilitarian account of the conditions under which an action—
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