Jack comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Jack 04 February 2010 07:39:28PM 9 points [-]

I said:

maximizing preference satisfaction rarely involves violating anyone's rights and mostly jives with human intuitions.

Those two examples are contrived to demonstrate the differences between utilitarianism and other theories. They hardly represent typical moral judgments.