I suspect the conflict-resolving rules end up looking pretty consequentialist a lot of the time.
Yeah I think so too. I further suspect that a lot of the ethical theories end up looking consequentialist when you dig deep enough. Which makes me wonder if they actually disagree on important, real world moral dilemmas. If so I wish that common intro to ethics types of discussions would talk about it more.
I disagree, mostly. Conscious deliberation is costly, and in practice having humans trust their own reasoning on when to follow which rules doesn’t tend to lead to great outcomes
I suspect we just don’t see eye-to-eye on this crux of how costly this sort of deliberation is. But I wonder if your feelings change at all if you try thinking of it as more of a spectrum (maybe you already are, I’m not sure). Ie, at least IMO, there is a spectrum of how much effort you expend on this conscious deliberation, so it isn’t really a question of doing it vs not doing it, it’s more a question of how much effort is worthwhile. Unless you think that in practice, such conversations would be contentious and drag on (in cultures I’ve been a part of this happens more often than not). In that scenario I think it’d be best to have simple rules and no/very little deliberation.
Yeah I think so too. I further suspect that a lot of the ethical theories end up looking consequentialist when you dig deep enough. Which makes me wonder if they actually disagree on important, real world moral dilemmas. If so I wish that common intro to ethics types of discussions would talk about it more.
I suspect we just don’t see eye-to-eye on this crux of how costly this sort of deliberation is. But I wonder if your feelings change at all if you try thinking of it as more of a spectrum (maybe you already are, I’m not sure). Ie, at least IMO, there is a spectrum of how much effort you expend on this conscious deliberation, so it isn’t really a question of doing it vs not doing it, it’s more a question of how much effort is worthwhile. Unless you think that in practice, such conversations would be contentious and drag on (in cultures I’ve been a part of this happens more often than not). In that scenario I think it’d be best to have simple rules and no/very little deliberation.