Alicorn comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Alicorn 31 January 2010 08:32:46PM 4 points [-]

This isn't necessarily the case. You can have positive requirements in a deontic system.

Comment author: Unknowns 01 February 2010 06:25:16AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but not "unbreakable" ones. In other words there will be exceptions on account of some other positive or negative requirement, as in the objections above.