framed a little more charitably, the left's critique I think should be acceptable even to most on the right: sexual mores are not cardinal values I don't think even tradcaths (but--?) would disagree that, say, wearing lipstick has varied in its moral status over time;
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extrapolate from that and it's hard to defend any particular set of temporogeographically-bound norms at least in deontological terms so settle for virtue or for consequentialism but these are quite plastic, so
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Anyway, I'm not a deontological sexual traditionalist. It's fine if you disagree I'm not proselytizing.
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The problem is that in fact sex is not like buying a cheese along a few important axes, and you can't just toss deontology and immediately start screaming no gods no masters I mean you can and I kind of respect that but it comes with some problems
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I was going to make some snark about dropping deontology and scream no gods no masters but what I really want to say is that given how much people trust deontologists the optimal consequentialist approach is to pretend to be a deontologist so; welcome to the ethics of boning
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"the rules say we have to be consequentialists, but deontologists are good people, and virtue ethics work"
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curious that as a virtue ethicist you quote noted villain Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I did It's the best thing he's ever said I try to recognize Sparks of virtue even in the generally bad Credit where credit is due: truth and justice
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I will recognize after roughly a year ago when friends memed me into writing fiction again after a 5 year break that virtue ethics makes for better storytelling
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there's nothing more important than storytelling
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that's not true and I will tell you a story to explain why You see once upon a time there was an ugly duck that was radicalized by swans laughing at how ugly he was,
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