WingedViper comments on Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... - Less Wrong

130 Post author: Yvain 24 December 2010 09:26PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 July 2012 09:27:57AM 0 points [-]

we should start out following them and only if they appear to be nonsatisfactory we should dive into consequentialist reasoning.

Your actual values are the ones that determine "what appears satisfactory".

Comment author: WingedViper 03 July 2012 10:05:39AM 2 points [-]

Of course, that's why I would call myself a consequentialist even though I mainly/very often argue by using deontic principles. I wasn't talking about theory (or foundation), but about the practicality/practical use of deontic reasoning versus consequentialism.