To avoid the timelessness issue, the parliament could be envisioned as voting on complete courses of action over the foreseeable future, rather than separate votes taken on each action. Then the deontologists’ utility function could return 0 for all unacceptable courses of action and 1 for all acceptable courses of action.
To avoid the timelessness issue, the parliament could be envisioned as voting on complete courses of action over the foreseeable future, rather than separate votes taken on each action. Then the deontologists’ utility function could return 0 for all unacceptable courses of action and 1 for all acceptable courses of action.