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Yeah, you can’t just leave out knock-on effects when talking about consequentialism. They’re consequences too.
by mistercow 3y ago
Yeah, you can’t just leave out knock-on effects when talking about consequentialism. They’re consequences too.
- klipt 3y agoAnd of course the end result of all the knock on effects is impossible to compute. At best you can approximate it. Which leads to two observations: 1, consequentialism is really hard, actually. 2, most other moral systems are really just varying approximations of consequentialism in disguise. "Follow my rules." "Why?" "Because the consequences of not following them would be disastrous!"