Interesting observation: You talked about that in terms the effects of banning sweatshops, rather than talking about it in terms of the effects of opening them. It’s of course the exact same action and the same result in every way- deontological as well as consequentialist- but it changes from “causing people to work in horrible sweatshop conditions” to “leaving people to starve to death as urban homeless”, so it switches around the “killing vs. allowing to die” burden.
(I’m not complaining, FYI, I think it’s actually an excellent technique. Although maybe it would be better if we came up with language to list two alternatives neutrally with no burden of action.)
Interesting observation: You talked about that in terms the effects of banning sweatshops, rather than talking about it in terms of the effects of opening them. It’s of course the exact same action and the same result in every way- deontological as well as consequentialist- but it changes from “causing people to work in horrible sweatshop conditions” to “leaving people to starve to death as urban homeless”, so it switches around the “killing vs. allowing to die” burden. (I’m not complaining, FYI, I think it’s actually an excellent technique. Although maybe it would be better if we came up with language to list two alternatives neutrally with no burden of action.)