tog comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tog 29 March 2015 06:50:31AM *  1 point [-]

How about moral realist consequentialism? Or a moral realist deontology with defeasible rules like a prohibition on murdering? These can certainly be coherent. I'm not sure what you require them to be non-arbitrary, but one case for consequentialism's being non-arbitrary would be that it is based on a direct acquaintance with or perception of the badness of pain and goodness of happiness. (I find this case plausible.) For a paper on this, see http://philpapers.org/archive/SINTEA-3.pdf

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 March 2015 10:20:39AM 2 points [-]

Or rule consequentialism, or constructivism, or contractarianism....