Consequentialists, deontologists, and virtue ethicists don’t really disagree on any major points in day to day life, just in crazy situations like trolley problems.
More precisely, they do disagree about the same practically relevant ethical questions that provoke controversy among common folks too, especially the politically and ideologically charged ones—but their positions are only loosely correlated with their ethical theories, and instead stem from the same gut feelings and signaling games as everybody else’s. This seems to me like a pretty damning fact about the way this whole area of intellectual work is conducted in practice.
a pretty damning fact about the way this whole area of intellectual work is conducted in practice.
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therefore there is no sense in individual people whose rationality is above-average attempting, in good faith and by way of experiment, to apply some subset of this intellectual work to their actual lives,
which I think is a conclusion that some people might inadvertently draw from your comment.
Will_Newsome:
More precisely, they do disagree about the same practically relevant ethical questions that provoke controversy among common folks too, especially the politically and ideologically charged ones—but their positions are only loosely correlated with their ethical theories, and instead stem from the same gut feelings and signaling games as everybody else’s. This seems to me like a pretty damning fact about the way this whole area of intellectual work is conducted in practice.
Maybe, but be very careful not to jump from
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which I think is a conclusion that some people might inadvertently draw from your comment.
Vladimir_M wins the discussion.
What??? He did!