Like fuck off. At the end of the day, the reason why you're not willing to do whatever is deontologically necessary to make as many people's lives easier as is possible is because you think you're a better person than the rest of us who've sold our souls and have no convictions
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(By definition you're talking about consequentialism over deontology here, if you're using the philosophy definition of the term)
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I mean it makes sense in the simplest meaning of the term, the term "deontology" just means "knowledge of duty" ("deon" is "duty" in Greek) So in the dictionary definition of the term consequentialism is also a duty, to do things that have positive consequences
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But the term "deontology" was invented (by consequentialists) to describe the opposite of consequentialism, i.e. duty as something that exists as an objective universal law
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Voting is a pretty good example to talk about these ethical problems actually because most people's ideas of the ethics of voting rests in this uneasy middle ground between deontology and consequentialism
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There's the Kantian thing about executing the last criminal in the jails while the comet comes for us, which I think about a lot.
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I have not heard about this one but it sounds like a hell of a thing...
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That might be my professor's gloss on it only; Kant wouldn't have talked about incoming comets, and it presumes that we're keeping capital punishment. Still, you get the point.
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The thought experiment I've often heard re: Kantian ethics is that one about the serial killer looking for the person (sometimes it's a nazi looking for someone they hate, but you get the idea.) The one where whether its acceptable to lie to save them from the killer.
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It's kind of a straw version of Kantian ethics in practice, even if Kant did straight up say "lying is always wrong"
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The more realistic Kantian reaction to this scenario is telling the Nazi, truthfully, "I would never tell someone like you anything", not actually cooperating
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(Which is still an ethical dilemma, if this means that they'll end up forcibly searching your house instead of you convincing them you're a loyal Nazi and that you know for a fact there's no Jews in this whole neighborhood)
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