Utilitarian consequentialism can justify killing by its aggregate social benefits

Evidence

Utilitarians justify the death penalty by citing the social benefits it produces. It prevents the murderer from killing again, deters would-be murderers, restores public safety, and provides solace for society. The utilitarian view is essentially the consequentialist theory of morality, whereby the rightness of an act is judged by its utility for the greatest number of people. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1874

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the utilitarian vs retributive distinction that structures how a whole class of ‘righteous’ harms get morally justified.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1874
• XREF: connects to: Sacrificial death legitimates a cause only if that cause is worth endorsing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1397