utilitarians
- plural of utilitarian.
Example Sentences
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As Bostrom writes, "for standard utilitarians, priority number one, two, three, and four should … be to reduce existential risk," the fifth being to colonize space.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022
Act utilitarians believe morality requires us to maximize the good every time we act.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
If it turns out to be an extremely costly intervention, however, utilitarians might not support it on the grounds that only the very wealthy would be able to access it.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
According to utilitarians, rules are made to be broken, when you make people happier by breaking them.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2020
The very children, grimy little utilitarians like their parents, only went abroad in the flood of golden sunshine, in order to rifle the hill pastures of their wild strawberries.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
