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    Utilitarianism is justified in ignoring interpersonal dis... — Carmelics
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    Utilitarianism is justified in ignoring interpersonal distributive principles grounded in the distinctness of persons.

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    • 1.Reductionism about personal identity holds that the non-identity of persons is not a deep metaphysical fact.
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    • 2.Interpersonal distributive principles derive their force from the metaphysical distinctness of persons.
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    • 3.If the non-identity of persons is not a deep fact, then the distributive principles grounded in that non-identity lack force.
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    • 1.Rawls argues that the separateness of persons is a pre-theoretical moral datum that constrains acceptable theories, not merely a metaphysical thesis.
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    • 2.Even if reductionism about personal identity is true, it does not follow that distributive principles tracking persons' distinct experiential perspectives lose normative force.
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    • 3.Parfit's own reductionism led him to strengthen, not abandon, distributive concerns by extending them to person-stages, undermining the pro-utilitarian inference.
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    • 1.T.M. Scanlon grounds interpersonal distributive principles in the practice of justification to individuals, which is independent of deep metaphysical facts about personal identity.
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    • 2.Even a reductionist must acknowledge functional boundaries between persons' welfare systems, and these boundaries suffice to generate irreducible distributive claims.
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    First, one might identify a serious objection to utilitarianism, say, and then show how considerations of personal identity (or at least of what matters in identity) dissolve the objection. This is the approach Parfit takes in Reasons and Persons. The objection he is concerned to refute is Rawls' famous “separateness of persons” charge, the contention that utilitarianism fails to take seriously the distinction between persons, because it controversially jettisons interpersonal distributive
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