Full agree. Hopefully consequentialism and kantianism are not opposed, in most cases. They can be seen as mirrored process, inductive vs deductive. My first thought when reading the blog post was like : isn’t this idea of “ethical patterns” like “be kind” a fall back to deontologism as a safe mode ? But if predicting the optimal result is often intractable, the arbitration between deontologic principles is not easy either.
Full agree. Hopefully consequentialism and kantianism are not opposed, in most cases. They can be seen as mirrored process, inductive vs deductive. My first thought when reading the blog post was like : isn’t this idea of “ethical patterns” like “be kind” a fall back to deontologism as a safe mode ? But if predicting the optimal result is often intractable, the arbitration between deontologic principles is not easy either.