Sanction utilitarianism, unlike rule utilitarianism, ties obligation to empiricalfacts about actual social enforcement mechanisms, which are notoriously unreliable and subject to cultural distortion.
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The respondent's commitment to a specific stance on the case put forward by the opponent, which governs how the respondent must respond to subsequent propositions throughout the disputation.
rule utilitarianism(Proposed as an interpretation of Mill based on his emphasis on felicific tendencies and the role of rules)
A utilitarian doctrine according to which moral reasoning proceeds via rules whose adoption tends to maximize utility, rather than via direct assessment of individual acts
sanction utilitarianism(Contrasted with act utilitarianism; a species of indirect utilitarianism.)
A conception of duty, justice, and rights that makes the deontic status of conduct depend upon the utility of sanctioning that conduct in some way.