dxu comments on Open thread, Mar. 23 - Mar. 31, 2015 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: MrMind 23 March 2015 08:38AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (181)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: dxu 27 March 2015 10:46:24PM *  2 points [-]

Well, if you want to write a fictional scenario in which deontology proves better than consequentialism, you kinda have to make the consequences of the deontological decision better than those of the consequentialist one. I agree that it's ironic, though, to be justifying deontology on consequentialist grounds (it saved more lives in the end, ha!).