I used to think consequentialism was stronger, as it's tough to fake long-run results— if someone leaves a stream of unhappy people behind them, there you have it. But it also gives people a lot of leeway to behave in apparently unethical ways if they can offer convincing excuses
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AFAICT, the main weaknesses of virtue frameworks involve (relatively common) edge cases, inconsistencies in managing tradeoffs & often sort of hand-wavy "do it to be awesome" justifications. But it's actually expensive to consistently signal virtue & IMO quite sociopath-resistant
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A society based on the best bourgeois virtue ethics.
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Virtue ethics is by nature bourgeois
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The thing is, most of the philosophical commitments chosen in adulthood seem post hoc to me: it gives a justifying framework for whatever the individual was going to do anyway. With religion (childhood) and politics (late teens) this can be more complicated.
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As for unreasonable people, they will probably use a cherry-picked combination that fits their preferred course of action. Still, your question stands in terms of which school they will most likely exploit publicly?
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Are you talking about sociopaths using disingenuous moral arguments to manipulate others/society, or just sociopaths trying to appear moral despite not being moral?
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