esoteric morality

I believe […] firmly in some form of act-utilitarianism in ethics, but the sacred principle of utility itself forbids my telling you this, much less committing (detectable) murders in its name.

William G. Lycan, Consciousness, Cambridge, Mass, 1987, p. 136

A morality is not incoherent simply because, in its own terms, it would be better not propagated.

Jonathan Glover, It Makes No Difference Whether or Not I Do It, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, vol. 49, 1975, pp. 171–190, pp. vol