RE: Ethics
March 2, 2022 at 2:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 2:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's an unrepresentative demand we make when we insist that any one tool apply equivalently through the full range of potential moral dilemma.
Virtue ethics explains that we prefer one set of things over overs. Consequentialism provides a full list of responsibility for a given act, and deontology are the rules we live by to prevent situations arising where we have to think too hard about the other two - because we're no good at it. It takes all of them to make a functional moral system - and even then - the moral system fails. It's not up to the task presented by the human animal, or to the circumstances presented by exclusively suboptimal decision fields.
Virtue ethics explains that we prefer one set of things over overs. Consequentialism provides a full list of responsibility for a given act, and deontology are the rules we live by to prevent situations arising where we have to think too hard about the other two - because we're no good at it. It takes all of them to make a functional moral system - and even then - the moral system fails. It's not up to the task presented by the human animal, or to the circumstances presented by exclusively suboptimal decision fields.
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