expressed in high school terms, the three major schools of ethics are: * "you're not my dad!" (deontology) * "it's better to be a jock / cheerleader than to be lame" (virtue ethics) * "mom, I REALLLLY need a car, so I can volunteer at the soup kitchen and stuff" (utilitarianism)
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Replying to @MorlockP
props for not including consequentialism, which is fake
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Replying to @djinnius
it's a subset of utilitarianism, so, yes, I agree with you
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Replying to @djinnius
in theory, no in practice, yes hmmm... I like this framing. for maximum lulz we need to (a) explain each X in terms of a Y, (b) make sure that they complete a circuit
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Replying to @MorlockP
well no, not in *principle*, because blue tribe is all about what’s left over when one files the serial numbers off God.
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I agree with everything after the "because" however, I think that you have nailed the motivation for it, and the history of it, but if we take utilitarianism seriously ON ITS OWN terms (steelman it), its not, in theory, that
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Replying to @MorlockP
what i’m saying is, big yud should write a utilitarian Bhagavad Gita fanfic
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