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    Challenges→Negative utilitarianism implies that a government should provide free contraceptives, because doing so reduces pain and other disvalues.

    The supporting argument conflates reducing the number of pain-bearers with reducing pain, a distinction Parfit's non-identity problem makes philosophically critical.

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