In practice, many of the utilitarians/consequentialists don’t see the negative outcomes themselves, or at least sufficiently many of them don’t that things will go to shit pretty quickly. (Relatedly, see the Unilateralists’ Curse, the Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma, and pretty much the entire literature of game theory, all those collective action problems...).
In addition to that, it’s important not just that you actually have high integrity but that people believe you do. And people will be rightly hesitant to believe that you do if you are going around saying that the morally correct thing to do is maximize expected utility but don’t worry it’s always and everywhere true that the way to maximize expected utility is to act as if you have high integrity. There are two strategies available, then: Actually have high integrity, which means not being 100% a utilitarian/consequentialist, or carry out an extremely convincing deception campaign to fool people into thinking you have high integrity. I recommend the former & if you attempt the latter, fuck you.
In practice, many of the utilitarians/consequentialists don’t see the negative outcomes themselves, or at least sufficiently many of them don’t that things will go to shit pretty quickly. (Relatedly, see the Unilateralists’ Curse, the Epistemic Prisoner’s Dilemma, and pretty much the entire literature of game theory, all those collective action problems...).
In addition to that, it’s important not just that you actually have high integrity but that people believe you do. And people will be rightly hesitant to believe that you do if you are going around saying that the morally correct thing to do is maximize expected utility but don’t worry it’s always and everywhere true that the way to maximize expected utility is to act as if you have high integrity. There are two strategies available, then: Actually have high integrity, which means not being 100% a utilitarian/consequentialist, or carry out an extremely convincing deception campaign to fool people into thinking you have high integrity. I recommend the former & if you attempt the latter, fuck you.