Common sense morality Common sense morality holds that we should work hard, take care of our families, and live virtuous but self-centered lives, while giving to charity as we are able and helping out others on a periodic basis. Utilitarian philosophy, on the other hand, appears to suggest an extreme degree of self-sacrifice. Why should a mother tend to her baby when she could sell it and use the profits to save a greater number of babies in Haiti? Shouldn’t anyone with medical training be obliged to move to sub-Saharan Africa to save the maximum number of lives? What percentage of your income
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