memoridem comments on Are you a virtue ethicist at heart? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: memoridem 28 January 2014 06:21:42AM *  0 points [-]

If only a small minority of people are consequentialists by default, then coldly calculated actions that have good consequences would more likely be a sign of callous character than a finely tuned moral compass, which in turn could lead to bad consequences in other situations. People might not be as irrational judging these example situations as it seems.