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Comment author: wedrifid 20 February 2011 05:25:49PM 2 points [-]

As tim pointed out, 'the latter' just isn't utilitarianism. It is a different brand of consequentialism. Utilitarianism itself is a mixture of obviously stupid and kind of evil (to the extent that it is taken seriously).