Nonsense. I believe my life and the lives of people close to me are more important than someone starving in a place whose name I can't pronounce. I just don't assign the same weight to all people. That is perfectly consistent with utilitarianism.
Er... no. Utilitarianism prohibits that exact thing by design. That's one of its most important aspects.
Read the definition. This is unambiguous.
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