Multiple Choice
The case of the "death-bed promise" shows that
A) utilitarianism may lead to conclusions that conflict with our ordinary ideas of right and wrong.
B) keeping your promises never maximizes happiness.
C) it was wrong to have made the promise in the first place.
D) utilitarianism reduces effectively to egoism in practice.
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