pragmatist comments on Ethical frameworks are isomorphic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pragmatist 15 August 2014 03:26:12PM 1 point [-]

But the reason why we have these deontological rules instead of some other deontological rules is partly consequentialism and partly historical accidents.

Why is it partly consequentialism? In what sense did consequentialism have any causal role to play in the development of deontological ethical systems? I highly doubt that the people who developed and promulgated them were closet consequentialists who chose the rules based on their consequences.