Peterdjones comments on People who want to save the world - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 14 May 2011 03:14:39PM -2 points [-]

I don't think there is any force to either claim. Deontologists are generally concerned with rules not salvation, and consequentialists are generally not ego(t)ists.

Comment author: Perplexed 14 May 2011 04:29:12PM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure to what claims you are referring. If you mean, for example, the claim that Alicorn is a deontologist, then I should point out that she has publicly confessed. If you mean my implicit claim that Giles is male, then I confess to jumping to that conclusion without sufficient evidence.

Comment author: Peterdjones 14 May 2011 04:39:48PM 2 points [-]

I think I misread your comment.

Comment author: timtyler 14 May 2011 04:39:41PM *  0 points [-]

consequentialists are generally not ego(t)ists.

Consequentialists are sometimes egoists.

Comment author: Perplexed 14 May 2011 06:04:32PM 1 point [-]

And egoists are almost always consequentialists.