(July 10, 2015 at 10:12 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Trying to separate the deontologists from the consequentialists? I'll take my seat with the former.
I did not have that specifically in mind when formulating the question. Nor will the responses necessarily make such a distinction. That is, one cannot be sure that all of the people who answer one way are consequentialists and all those who answer the other way are deontologists.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.