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Sure. Pascal's Mugging is not a "fully general counterargument" to anything sensible. It is one of multiple problems which come up when you are trying to shut up and multiply on the basis of a too-simple model which doesn't work in reality outside of toy examples.
Saying "there are multiple problems with (probability x utility) calculations" DOES imply that discarding this approach might be helpful.
Multiplying probability with utility is central to classical decision theory, and Pascal's mugging is not a problem for it. Pascal's mugging only becomes a problem when you make certain strong assumptions about the shape of the utility function.