Desrtopa comments on Consequentialism Need Not Be Nearsighted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 27 September 2011 10:53:02PM 2 points [-]

People's moral intuitions are incoherent, and will tend to return different answers for the same dilemma phrased in different terms. Our evolved heuristics have their uses, among them is not turning into a social pariah in a group that relies on the same heuristics, but they're certainly not isomorphic to strict consequentialism.