cupholder comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (534)
In my opinion, this is a lawyer's attempt to masquerade deontologism as consequentialism. You can, of course, reformulate the deontologist rule "never lie" as a consequentialist "I assign an extremely high disutility to situations where I lie". In the same way you can put consequentialist preferences as a deontoligst rule "at any case, do whatever maximises your utility". But doing that, the point of the distinction between the two ethical systems is lost.
If so, maybe we want that.