Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Alicorn 30 January 2010 05:58PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (247)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 31 January 2010 07:56:03PM 3 points [-]

The problem with unbreakable rules is that you're only allowed to have one.

I second the question. Is there a standard reply in deontology?

In my experience, deontologists treat this as a feature rather than a bug. The absolute necessity that the rules never conflict is a constraint, which, they think, helps them to deduce what those rules must be.