A. The best way to uphold the worthwhile is to promote what is best for me.

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B. The best way to uphold what is worthwhile is to promote what is best for my favorite group of persons (family, tribe, nation, culture, race, sex, species, etc.).

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C. The best way to uphold what is worthwhile is to maximize the worthwhile from a single standpoint, which the utilitarian, Henry Sidgwick, calls "the point of view of the universe."

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D. There is no such thing as the worthwhile.

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E. There is an overarching, impersonal standard of the worthwhile.

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F. It is not (as) worthwhile to respect what is worthwhile for all persons.

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G. We can count beings by degrees: the degree to which they manifest the greatest conceivable number of goods that a being may realize.

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H. The best way to uphold the worthwhile is to promote less than the conjunction of what is worthwhile for all persons.

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