Comment on Mass-murdering neuroscience Ph.D. student

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:38:21 GMT

I'm observing that most of them considers themselves an immoral hypocrite.

No, they don't.

I like my kidney. I value my kidney more than I value someone else having my kidney unless they are a relative or close friend. I have impolite words to say to anyone who dares suggest that me keeping my kidney is immoral.

The fact that the conclusions which are necessarily drawn from the premises of consequentialism are absurd is what discredits consequentialism as the primary driver of moral decisions.

You don't understand consequentialism. The straw man you criticism more closely resembles some form of utilitarianism---which I do reject as abhorrent.

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