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My guess is that the appropriate way to dissolve the conflict between utilitarian and deontological moral philosophy is to see deontological rules as heuristics. I think we could design an experiment in which utilitarians get emotional and inconsistent, and deontologists come off as the sober thinkers, just by making it a situation where adoption of a simple consistent heuristic is superior to the attempt to weigh up unknown probabilities and unknown bads.
(The example I've seen is “I wear the safety belt whenever I drive a car, because unthinkingly wearing a safety belt is even less expensive than thinking whether or not to wear it”.)