> If two values confict, how do you decide? I'm not sure there is any general rule for this. That's why there are conflicts like this in the first place: becau

> If two values confict, how do you decide? I'm not sure there is any general rule for this. That's why there are conflicts like this in the first place: because there isn't one consistent set of ethical rules that can be applied to every situation. > More importantly, how do you decide without appealing to utility at some level, including implicitly? "Utility" in this context is just another way of saying "what people value". But if there were one single scale on which we could measure everything that people value, there wouldn't be ethical conflicts. The whole point is that there isn't any such scale: people have multiple different, incommensurable values, and there is no general rule for how to resolve conflicts between them.