Comment on Normal Cryonics

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:20:04 GMT

This is called the "consequentialist doppelganger" phenomenon, when I've heard it described, and it's very, very annoying to non-consequentialists. Yes, you can turn any ethical system into a consequentialism by applying the following transformation:

1. What would the world be like if everyone followed Non-Consequentialism X?

2. You should act to achieve the outcome yielded by Step 1.

But this ignores what we might call the point of Non-Consequentialism X, which holds that you should follow it for reasons unrelated to how it will make the world be.

Discuss