Utilitarianism is unlikely to rescue anyone from the conundrum (unless it’s applied in the most mindless way—in which case, you might as well not think about it).
There’s an obvious social benefit to being secure against being randomly sacrificed for the benefit of others. You’re not going to be able to quantify the utility of providing everyone in society this benefit as a general social principle, and weigh the benefit of consistency on that point against the benefit of violating the principle in any given instance, any more easily than you could have decided the issue without any attempt at quantification.
Utilitarianism to the rescue, then.
Utilitarianism is unlikely to rescue anyone from the conundrum (unless it’s applied in the most mindless way—in which case, you might as well not think about it).
There’s an obvious social benefit to being secure against being randomly sacrificed for the benefit of others. You’re not going to be able to quantify the utility of providing everyone in society this benefit as a general social principle, and weigh the benefit of consistency on that point against the benefit of violating the principle in any given instance, any more easily than you could have decided the issue without any attempt at quantification.