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eli_sennesh comments on Integral vs differential ethics, continued - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 August 2015 01:25PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 August 2015 03:49:33AM 1 point [-]

Observation: seemingly, consequentialists should be using "integral reasoning", while deontologists use "differential reasoning". If what you really care about is the final outcome, then you shouldn't assign much weight to what your intuitions say about each individual step, you care about the final outcome.