Eugine_Nier comments on Consequentialism FAQ - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2011 01:45AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 26 April 2011 11:16:25PM 3 points [-]

people should embrace consequentialism because it makes sense - because it doesn't rely on pies in the sky - not because it can be made to match their moral intuitions.

The whole point of CEV, reflexive consistency and the meta-ethics sequence is that morality is based on our intuitions.

Comment author: NihilCredo 26 April 2011 11:34:04PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, I personally think that's awful. LessWrong rightly tends to promote being sceptical of one's mere intuitions in most contexts, and I think the same approach should be taken with morality (basically, this post on steroids).

Comment author: Marius 28 April 2011 01:43:31AM -1 points [-]

If this is to be useful, it would have to read "that our intuitions are based on morality".