The EA movement has recently done an excellent job showing that utilitarianism and consequentialism are merely the substitution of one’s particular favorite virtues, “truth-seeking” or “efficiency,” for others. It is an impoverished deontology that deceives the believer into thinking it is something other than deontology, by flattering them with the notion that their conception of the good is somehow uniquely rational, while other virtues are superstition or merely evolved behavioral strategies that roughly approximate efficiency over evolutionary time. It is a religion. It is anti-pluralistic and, in that sense, anti-American. It should be understood as a spiritual practice from which we might learn something about the diversity of human perceptions of the world, but treated with extreme caution and never mistaken for neutral reason, much less given political power.