so I can say moral system A outperforms moral system B just where A serves my selfish purposes better than B. Hmm. Isn’t that a rather amoral way of looking at morality?
It’s an honest assessment of the state of the world.
I’m not agreeing with that position, I’m just saying that there are folks who would prefer an efficient program that yielded the wrong results if it benefited them, and would engage in all manner of philosophicalish circumlocutions to justify it to themselves.
That very much depends on who benefits from those wrong results.
so I can say moral system A outperforms moral system B just where A serves my selfish purposes better than B. Hmm. Isn’t that a rather amoral way of looking at morality?
No.
It’s an honest assessment of the state of the world.
I’m not agreeing with that position, I’m just saying that there are folks who would prefer an efficient program that yielded the wrong results if it benefited them, and would engage in all manner of philosophicalish circumlocutions to justify it to themselves.
That’s not very relevant to the benefits or otherwise fo consequentialism and deontology.