Vladimir_M comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong
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Will_Newsome:
More precisely, they do disagree about the same practically relevant ethical questions that provoke controversy among common folks too, especially the politically and ideologically charged ones -- but their positions are only loosely correlated with their ethical theories, and instead stem from the same gut feelings and signaling games as everybody else's. This seems to me like a pretty damning fact about the way this whole area of intellectual work is conducted in practice.
Maybe, but be very careful not to jump from
to
which I think is a conclusion that some people might inadvertently draw from your comment.