According to Bentham, ethical "hard choices":

A. can be solved by simply counting up all the pleasures and pains involved.

B. can only be resolved by giving up utilitarianism.

C. are not common enough to be important.
D. are caused by selfishness.

E. can be solved only by moral relativism.


Answer: A

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