The consequentialist can recognise rights

Philosophical Quarterly 38 (150):42-55 (1988)
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consequentialist, even being a utilitarian, allows one still to recognise rights.' I believe that these efforts are well motivated, for I think that any moral doctrine is suspect if one of its effects is to make agents unable to take one another's rights seriously

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