Williams uses the word integrity to attack the utilitarians—less in the sense of “honesty and moral uprightness” than “wholeness,” or “undividedness.” He says that their worldview causes a crack in the basic foundation of an individual’s being—the sense that “each of us is specially responsible for what he does, rather than for what other people do.” Ten people might die because Sheriff Pete thinks mass murder is a good way to maintain law and order—but that’s on Pete. If Jim kills a guy, that’s on Jim, even if he does it for the sake of some kind of “greater good.”
