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The present chapter explores some implications of the conclusions of previous chapters for social decision-making. Each social institution — from the family to the world — sets up certain customary ways of making certain kinds of decisions. These methods have advantages and disadvantages, which may be analyzed in a utilitarian framework when we need to decide how future decisions will be made.1 To some extent, the analysis presented here extends the discussion of types of decisions (Other, Self, Other-other, Self-other) begun in ch. 1. The distinctions made there were sufficient for their normative purpose, but a new set of distinctions — both finer and broader — is needed for the prescriptive purposes of this chapter.
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Baron, J. (1993). Social decisions. In: Morality and Rational Choice. Theory and Decision Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8226-1_12
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