The deontology makes the most sense when we're talking about other humans. When you start looking at whether it's okay for a person shipwrecked on the island to eat a fish to stay alive for another day, deontology kind of struggles. And so utilitarianism doesn't, like calculations are intractable, but just theoretically philosophically, there is a way out - even if we don't have the numbers we need to calculate.

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