>Which again is why I don't see why criticizing utilitarianism is a thing at all. Because utilitarianism is doing utility-theory consequentialism with the util

>Which again is why I don't see why criticizing utilitarianism is a thing at all. Because utilitarianism is doing utility-theory consequentialism with the utility function strictly defined to be summed-up quantities of pleasure across the whole population. Utilitarianism doesn't mean "consequentialist, VNM-rational decision making", it means, "the maximally effective way of creating and enforcing pleasure for everyone". It's not the utility function anyone really wants, which is why utility theory is such crap. It doesn't matter to have a coherent mathematical formalism if you get given not the slightest idea how to come up with a good value for the infinite-dimensional free parameter.