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Utilitarian arguments lead you strange places. You can end up eating children or burning hobos for fuel. Be very careful.

All arguments can lean you strange places. They're inconsequential if they don't.

Luckily, the modern pragmatist is also socially aware.

You seem to be judging the worth of an argument by the "strangeness" of its implications. That's a curious standard.

I think we would all agree that persuasiveness is an axis upon which to judge arguments. "Strangeness" is far out there on the persuasive axis.

Maybe so far out there that Richard Dawkins and Neil Degrasse Tyson are arguing in the other room... but its on the axis somewhere.