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Here's a heuristic: There are no slam-dunks in philosophy.
Here's another: Most ideas come in strong, contentious flavours and watered-down, easy-to-defend flavours.
But water things down enough and they are no longer philosophy.
But the Capitalized Moral Theory is what "consequentialism" means. You have invented a severely watered down version "the everyday heuristic". How could anyone guess that's what you mean? I wouldn't have.
Agreed except for this:
In my experience the strong flavors are easier to defend, except that they tend to trip people's absurdity heuristics.