Wouldn’t a rational consequentialist estimate the odds that the policy will have unpredictable and harmful consequences, and take this into consideration?
Regardless of how well it works, consequentialism essentially underlies public policy analysis and I’m not sure how one would do it otherwise. (I’m talking about economists calculating deadweight loss triangles and so on, not politicians arguing that “X is wrong!!!”)
Wouldn’t a rational consequentialist estimate the odds that the policy will have unpredictable and harmful consequences, and take this into consideration?
The discussion was about consequentialist heuristics, not hypothetical perfectly rational agents.
Wouldn’t a rational consequentialist estimate the odds that the policy will have unpredictable and harmful consequences, and take this into consideration?
Regardless of how well it works, consequentialism essentially underlies public policy analysis and I’m not sure how one would do it otherwise. (I’m talking about economists calculating deadweight loss triangles and so on, not politicians arguing that “X is wrong!!!”)
The discussion was about consequentialist heuristics, not hypothetical perfectly rational agents.