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.. Moral rules of thumb like The NAP? The thing is, you only need two moral rules of thumb: Anything else is just overcomplicating things.Basically, rule utilitarianism calls for the creation of 'moral rules-of-thumb'
If there's a need for more detailed analysis, that can and should be done on a case-by-case basis. You could come up with countless contrived edge cases like The Trolley Problem, but practical impossibilities don't matter in real life, and whatever strange situations actually come up can be handled when they do. 1) Don't aggress against other people
2) Don't violate their property rights (through theft, fraud etc)