Fifth reply: While in this case I don’t think that the policy is the right consequentialist thing to do, in general I expect consequentialism to endorse some decisions that violate our current commonsense morality. Such decisions are usually seen as moral progress in retrospect.
Fourth reply: people deeply value autonomy.
Fifth reply: While in this case I don’t think that the policy is the right consequentialist thing to do, in general I expect consequentialism to endorse some decisions that violate our current commonsense morality. Such decisions are usually seen as moral progress in retrospect.
Upvoted because fourth reply seems much closer to a true objection.