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I 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 com
by billswift 16y ago
I 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.