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Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 March 2015 06:21:11PM 0 points [-]

if you benefit from X overall, then X is a good thing.

Yes. That's pretty much the definition of consequentialism. Values can be compared and weighed, and when the weight is greater compared to the alternatives, "then X is a good thing".

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