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Rawls vs. Carrit
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Rawls’ is refuting Carrit’s claim that Utilitarianism would allow the killing of an innocent in some situations “to prevent worse pain or bring about greater happiness”. Carrit’s example of one such situation is in a crime ridden society; if none of the criminals can be caught is would be beneficial to publicly frame an innocent for the crime and punish him grotesquely as a warning to all criminals.
Rawls’ first point against Carrit’s argument is that he not defined the instituti...
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