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Comment author: shminux 12 May 2015 03:18:01PM 3 points [-]

I start asking myself about what sort of person this decision makes me.

Virtue ethics is not the worst heuristic.

  • Do you have any examples of pedestrian moral dilemmas to which you've applied abstract moral reasoning? How did that work out?

Definitely. Whether to cheat on a test used to be a common moral dilemma. I ended up making different decisions in different circumstances, based on both virtue ethics and consequentialism, and occasionally deontology.

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