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    It is not the case that The fact that ideal utilitarianism entails breaking a promise in the initial case is not a decisive objection against ideal utilitarianism

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    • 1.Promissory obligations derive their moral force precisely from their resistance to aggregative override, as Scanlon's contractualism demonstrates.
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    • 2.A theory that permits breaking promises whenever net good is maximized cannot adequately explain why promises generate special obligations at all.
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    • 3.If ideal utilitarianism dissolves the distinctive normative force of promising, then promise-breaking cases are not mere counterexamples but structural refutations.
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    • 1.Ross's particularism holds that moral intuitions in specific cases carry irreducible evidential weight that systematic theories cannot simply override.
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    • 2.The intuition that one must keep this promise is not merely a data point to be outweighed by theoretical elegance but constitutes direct moral evidence.
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    • 1.Ross's revised view may require revision to common-sense morality
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    • 2.The difference between Ross's revisions and ideal utilitarianism's revisions to common-sense morality is very thin
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    • 3.Ideal utilitarianism aligns with common-sense morality in many other important cases
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