All discussion on this post is very welcome - I hope we can build more on this topic.

Re: my last post, it suffered from three points - it could have used more editing to make my key points more clearly, it should have included practical alternatives, and the examples should've been more generic. I tried to spend more time with this one and not repeat those errors. I appreciate all the feedback and replies on the last post, and I might try to write a follow-on post about deontological ethics, consequentalism, and how context matters for choosing actions. Thanks for all that feedback and discussion, I'll go through all of it very closely when I have a little more time, and might try to write that post on ethics and context if I think there's a way I could do it at a high standard.