In his dissertation near the end Josh Greene argues that in everyday cases utilitarianism’s conflict with other moral accounts (like deontology) is less than one might have guessed because large harms or forgone benefits elicit moral campaigning that change moral intuitions (e.g. Mothers Against Drunk Driving making drunk driving seem intuitively bad even when no one is harmed in a particular case).
The opposite seems to happen as well—namely denying that something really is a harm because it is caused by a just policy, or happens to an unpopular group.
In his dissertation near the end Josh Greene argues that in everyday cases utilitarianism’s conflict with other moral accounts (like deontology) is less than one might have guessed because large harms or forgone benefits elicit moral campaigning that change moral intuitions (e.g. Mothers Against Drunk Driving making drunk driving seem intuitively bad even when no one is harmed in a particular case).
The opposite seems to happen as well—namely denying that something really is a harm because it is caused by a just policy, or happens to an unpopular group.