orthonormal comments on Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted - Less Wrong

53 Post author: orthonormal 02 September 2011 07:37AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 31 August 2011 02:26:53PM 7 points [-]

Fourth reply: people deeply value autonomy.

Fifth reply: While in this case I don't think that the policy is the right consequentialist thing to do, in general I expect consequentialism to endorse some decisions that violate our current commonsense morality. Such decisions are usually seen as moral progress in retrospect.

Comment author: RomanDavis 01 September 2011 04:47:51PM 0 points [-]

Upvoted because fourth reply seems much closer to a true objection.