bbleeker comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: bbleeker 03 November 2011 01:49:52PM 2 points [-]

Hm... maybe I am a consequentialist, after all. But I try hard not to think of people as good or bad. What the Good Samaritan did was a good thing, because it helped the victim. And of course people with a charitable and benevolent nature will tend to do good things more often, as will those who follow good moral edicts.

Comment author: RobinZ 03 November 2011 07:48:23PM 1 point [-]

Sure - that attitude would be entirely compatible with consequentialism.