To deal with these situations, there is no better tool than utilitarianism, for it makes those trade-offs explicit and transparent, whereas other ethical theories offer little more than the .
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A healthcare worker in green scrubs stands in the middle of an intersection, staring down a traffic jam of screaming protesters demanding a return to their livelihoods and liberties.
The concept of utilitarianism refers to the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful for the benefit of a majority.
It reduces deliberation over the morality of events such as the killing of Bin Laden to calculation, but other theories are worse I'd forgotten all about Osama bin Laden.
Peter Singer was in Oxford last week.