Alicorn comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong
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I don't have an arsenal with which to defend the universalizeability thing; I don't use it, as I said. Kant seems to me to think that performing only universalizeable actions is a constraint on rationality; don't ask me how he got to that - if I had to use a CI formulation I'd go with the "treat people as ends in themselves" one.
It suits some intuitions very nicely. If it doesn't suit yours, fine; I just want people to stop trying to cram mine into boxes that are the wrong shape.
I suppose that's about as good as we're going to get with moral theories!
Well, I hope I haven't caused you too much corner-sobbing; thanks for explaining.