> Utilitarianism has trouble dealing with cheating because any single act of cheating seems to cause benefits for the cheater greater than the damage a single c

> Utilitarianism has trouble dealing with cheating because any single act of cheating seems to cause benefits for the cheater greater than the damage a single cheater does. It clearly doesn't? There's no sensible mechanism by which someone cheating to get a higher grade will help them, except by hurting someone else. The main dream of the cheater is to get some kind of rewarding job later based on the strength of their transcript, instead of some other guy who would otherwise have been doing that job, and who (if you think the grades prior to cheating had any usefulness at all) would most likely have been better at the job. It's hard to be able to predict in advance exactly who will be harmed by any given act of cheating, but that isn't a problem for utilitarianism.