lionhearted comments on Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? - Less Wrong
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Very good reply here. I used to firmly identify as a deontologist for that reason - I actually wrote a post rejecting the trolley game for ignoring secondary effects. It got a very mixed response, but I stand strongly by one of the points on there -
So I used to think I was a deontologist - "no, I wouldn't push someone onto the tracks to save others, because it's not a good idea to live in a world where people are comfortable ending each other's lives when they deem it for the greater good."
However, after a conversation with a very intelligent person with lots of training in philosophy, I was convinced I'm actually a "rules-based consequentialist" - that I want rules and protocols that produce a general set of consistently good effects rather than running the math every time a trolley is out of control (or a plane is going to crash, or a suspect you're really darn sure did it is in custody but you've got flimsy evidence...)