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    It is not the case that Secondary moral principles provide support for utilitarianism rather than undermining it

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    • 1.Secondary principles like justice carry independent moral weight that agents recognize prior to and apart from any utility calculation.
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    • 2.If secondary principles derive their authority solely from acceptance value, then cases where justice conflicts with utility reveal that agents are actually tracking something non-utilitarian.
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    • 3.Mill's own 'proof' in Utilitarianism chapter 5 concedes justice has a 'peculiar sentiment' attached to it, suggesting its normative force is not reducible to aggregated welfare.
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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties demonstrate that secondary principles generate genuine moral residue when overridden, which a purely instrumental utilitarian justification cannot explain.
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    • 2.If secondary principles were merely heuristics for utility, violating them when utility demands should produce no remainder-obligation, yet moral phenomenology consistently registers such remainders.
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    • 1.Secondary principles are adopted and internalized because of their acceptance value
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    • 2.The continued use of secondary principles should be regulated by their ongoing comparative acceptance value
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    • 3.The importance of secondary principles in moral reasoning is consistent with utilitarian first principles
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