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Squark comments on Are consequentialism and deontology not even wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 02 June 2015 07:49AM

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Comment author: Squark 07 June 2015 07:18:17PM 0 points [-]

Well, I would describe the scenario you suggest as "consequentialism is wrong" rather than "consequentialism is not even wrong". Moreover, I don't see what it has to do with whatever the Greeks or Bentham or whoever meant when they wrote something.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 June 2015 06:05:50PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough, then.