So you are basically saying that sometimes it is in your own self-interest (“own utility”) to cooperate with other people. Sure, that’s a pretty obvious observation. I still don’t see how it leads to utilitarianism.
If you terminal value is still self-interest but it so happens that there is a side-effect of increasing other people’s utility—that doesn’t look like utilitarianism to me.
So you are basically saying that sometimes it is in your own self-interest (“own utility”) to cooperate with other people. Sure, that’s a pretty obvious observation. I still don’t see how it leads to utilitarianism.
If you terminal value is still self-interest but it so happens that there is a side-effect of increasing other people’s utility—that doesn’t look like utilitarianism to me.
I was only trying to make the obvious observation.
Just trying to satisfy your empathy does not really look like pure utilitarianism either.