> Horwitz wrote:
>> Is it not possible for someone to say of regime X that he
>> or she thinks policies A and B are good without also
>> endorsing policies C and D?


On 5/12/2011 11:03 AM, E. Roy Weintraub wrote:
> Actually, no.  These kinds of trade-off of good for bad, cost-benefit
> calculations of a utilitarian sort in ethical
> argumentation, are quite dubious.


Actually, yes.

The concern about utilitarian trade-offs cuts exactly the
opposite of where you suggest.  It does not interfere with
our ability to judge individual policies.  Instead, it
undermines with the justifiability of aggregating those
judgments in certain ways.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac