Yes! Both you and Kaj Sotala seem right on the money here. Deontology falls flat. A friend once observed to me that consequentialism is a more challenging stand to take because one needs to know more about any particular claim to defend an opinion about it.
I know it’s been discussed here on Less Wrong, but Jonathan Haidt’s research is really great, and relevant to this discussion. Professor Haidt’s work has validated David Hume’s assertions that we humans do not reason to our moral conclusions. Instead, we intuit about the morality of an action, and then provide shoddy reasoning as justification one way or the other.
Yes! Both you and Kaj Sotala seem right on the money here. Deontology falls flat. A friend once observed to me that consequentialism is a more challenging stand to take because one needs to know more about any particular claim to defend an opinion about it.
I know it’s been discussed here on Less Wrong, but Jonathan Haidt’s research is really great, and relevant to this discussion. Professor Haidt’s work has validated David Hume’s assertions that we humans do not reason to our moral conclusions. Instead, we intuit about the morality of an action, and then provide shoddy reasoning as justification one way or the other.