Rule utilitarianism, rights, obligations
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John C. Harsanyi
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Article
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1980
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Springer US
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English
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The paper first summarizes the author's decision-theoretical model of moral behavior, in order to compare the moral implications of the act-utilitarian and of the rule-utilitarian versions of utilitarian theory. This model is then applied to three voting examples. It is argued that the moral behavio