If you want to make moral claims about the value of honesty, make moral claims about the value of honesty. Don’t dress them up as pragmatic claims about the usefulness of honesty, because then if your claims aren’t true the whole thing comes tumbling down.
If you want to make moral claims about the value of honesty, make moral claims about the value of honesty. Don’t dress them up as pragmatic claims about the usefulness of honesty, because then if your claims aren’t true the whole thing comes tumbling down.
To a consequentialist, moral claims are claims about usefulness.
No. Moral claims are claims about the content of the utility function, answers to the question “useful for accomplishing what?”.