simplicio comments on Cultivating our own gardens - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 31 May 2010 09:17:10PM 1 point [-]

This is an interesting idea, to be sure. It sounds like you might be sympathetic to virtue ethics (as indeed am I, though I become a consequentialist when the stakes get high).

Also, have you read Bernard Williams' critique of utilitarianism? Because

You're free to choose those values for yourself -- you don't have to drop them because they're perhaps not optimal for the world's well-being.

would definitely be one of his arguments.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 May 2010 11:20:13PM 0 points [-]

I haven't read it, but I'll have to look into it.