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Umm... torture vs dust specks is both counterintuitive and violates rights. Utilitarian consequentialists also flip the switch in the trolley problem, again violating rights.
It doesn't sound nice or explain our intuitions. Instead, the goal is the most good for the most people.
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Those two examples are contrived to demonstrate the differences between utilitarianism and other theories. They hardly represent typical moral judgments.