“An incestuous act of sex at time t” is a descriptive statement of the world which could be able to change the output of a utility function, just as “a scandal at time t + 1 week” or “a deformed baby born at time t + 9 months” could, right? Now, my personal utility function doesn’t seem to put any (terminal) value on the first statement either, but if someone else’s utility function does, what makes mine “consequentialist” and theirs not?
“An incestuous act of sex at time t” is a descriptive statement of the world which could be able to change the output of a utility function, just as “a scandal at time t + 1 week” or “a deformed baby born at time t + 9 months” could, right? Now, my personal utility function doesn’t seem to put any (terminal) value on the first statement either, but if someone else’s utility function does, what makes mine “consequentialist” and theirs not?