NancyLebovitz comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 June 2010 03:40:44PM 1 point [-]

"Beyond the pale of humanity" is dubious stuff-- there's a big range between defensive lying and torturing prisoners, and quite a few ethicists would say that there are different rules for how you treat people who are directly dangerous to you and for how you treat people who can't defend themselves from you.