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Which is *more resistant to exploitation by competent sociopaths*? A society built on the best modern conception of virtue ethics (or adjacent philosophies) or a society built on the best modern conception of consequentialism/utilitarianism (or adjacent philosophies)?
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
Utilitarianism is incompatible with the incentives in any scenario that lacks a straightforward method of blame assignment.
Consequentialism is either circular "it's good because it led to good results" or igrounded in emotions "it's good because people liked its results". Neither results in a meaningful ethics.
I think a hardline consequentialist would argue that virtue ethics gives people a lot of leeway to behave in unintuitively unethical ways if they can offer minimally convincing excuses.
The way I understand it, in consequentialism it's good if the consequences are "good" and in utilitarianism it's good if majority are happy which is kind of hit-or-miss, community virtue ethics captures group consensus and memory of what is "good"
So virtue ethics might be more resistant to sociopathic behavior once a group identifies sociopathy markers and incorporates into the communities' group memory of what is good and bad.
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