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IMO that's a very reasonable approach with two caveats:

- Consequentialism has real issues with ethics in the very large to infinite scale (time, numbers of people, etc.). Most theories of ethics have issues in this limit as well, but Macaskill accepts the repugnant conclusion and advocates for "longtermism", which I think is undeveloped in anything more than a vague "we should think about the future" sense.

- It's perfectly valid for a human society to decide to have some non-consequentialist bright lines they won't cross.