[Serious] Ethics

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Do you have an ethical system? And, if so, what is it?

I'm a Rule Consequentialist in principle but a virtue ethicist in practice.

for those who are unaware, there are three main branches of normative ethics.

(1) Consquentailism

(2) Deontology

(3) Virtue ethics.

Also, an answer to the trolley problem would be cool. I should kill the 1 to save the 5.

  I have doubts that humans are even capable of ethics.  Not in a consistent manner that is.  And where making money is involved, any real ethics tend to fall by the wayside.  As for your last question, I have a better one.  Would you exterminate 6 billion to save one billion people?  The alternative of course being that everybody dies otherwise.