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Comment author: blacktrance 17 July 2013 04:04:10PM 0 points [-]

I thought the latter was just called "consequentialism".

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 July 2013 05:05:00AM 0 points [-]

In practice I've seen "utilitarianism" used to refer to both positions, as well as a lot of positions in between.