Here is a related post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/ I'm sure there are others.
I can see how it's related, but that's not what I was trying to think. The main points that drew me out were "spread consequentialism" and "first, stop shooting ourselves in the foot."
I don't know. It's gone.
I just came across an essay David Friedman posted last Monday The Ambiguity of Utility that presents one of the problems I have with using utilities as the foundation of some "rational" morality.