Eugine_Nier comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 February 2014 09:04:40PM -1 points [-]

For a consequentialist, having decisions have "consequences" should not be a terminal value.

But it is instrumentally useful if people's decisions have consequences to the person doing the deciding that are correlated with the net affect of their decision.