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The 103 pages that link to Utilitarianism, each with the reason it gives.

• CarnismCompared with: Applied to animal agriculture, it evaluates suffering and benefits rather than relying on customary food norms.

• José Enrique RodóCompared with: Rodó opposed reducing education and public life to practical utility.

• Rational egoismCompared with: It evaluates outcomes across everyone affected rather than privileging the agent's own welfare.

• EgoismCompared with: It weighs everyone’s welfare, rather than giving each agent’s own interests priority.

• Richard PosnerCompared with: Posner’s wealth-maximization account differs from welfare theories that count benefits and harms directly.

• The GoodCompared with: Its account of value through outcomes differs from Plato’s supreme intelligible principle.

• Atlas ShruggedCompared with: Rand rejects sacrificing individuals for aggregate welfare, a principle associated with utilitarian reasoning.

• Beyond Good and EvilCompared with: Nietzsche objects to reducing human value and morality to the pursuit of comfort or utility.

• Cardinal virtuesCompared with: It judges conduct by outcomes rather than primarily by the agent’s cultivated character.

• Good and evilCompared with: It offers a concrete account of good as the greatest aggregate welfare.

• Judith Jarvis ThomsonCompared with: Thomson’s rights-based reasoning resists treating bodily claims as simply outweighed by better aggregate outcomes.

• Roger ScrutonCompared with: Scruton resisted reducing political and cultural value to calculations of utility.

• Prabhat Ranjan SarkarCompared with: Sarkar argued that moral decisions need principles beyond aggregate material welfare.