wedrifid comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 February 2010 02:29:37PM 4 points [-]

This may be because it sounds like a nice thing to say about it, and a comparatively mean thing to say about consequentialism

For comparison, as I read that it sounded like a mean thing to say about deontology and a neutral thing to say about consequentialism. This may be because I have internalized consequentialist thinking so consequentialist related things sound better. Or maybe it is because I naturally associate 'morality as terminal' with 'lies you tell people and stuff you try to force other people to do'.

Comment author: Alicorn 03 February 2010 02:34:52PM *  0 points [-]

That's very interesting. If it happened in one direction - if morality being instrumental started out sounding good to you and bad to me - that could explain a lot of the apparent disconnect between consequentialists and non-.