badger comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Will_Newsome 04 June 2010 04:08PM

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Comment author: badger 04 June 2010 08:39:48PM 0 points [-]

Virtues don't add much to discussion about what you should or shouldn't do. Instead, I think they are useful in talking about what kind of person you should be, i.e. someone courageous enough to push the man iff that's the right action to take.