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I try to live deontologically in my personal life. With limited success, as you can see by my harassing this guy even though I should just leave him alone. But
by houseabsolute 16y ago
I try to live deontologically in my personal life. With limited success, as you can see by my harassing this guy even though I should just leave him alone. But it just gets too complicated when you apply it to large systems like society . . . it becomes impossible to reason about. Nice observation though.
- billswift 16y agoI left this comment: I am a virtue ethicist for consequentialist reasons. While good results (consequences) are the end of my ethics, the real world is too complex for a real time evaluation of the likely results of even relatively simple decisions. So you use virtues (my definition is slightly non-standard) - rules that are more likely than not to result in better outcomes. in a discussion on Less Wrong http://lesswrong.com/lw/2aa/virtue_ethics_for_consequentialists/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2aa/virtue_ethics_for_consequentiali... early this month.