This may be because it sounds like a nice thing to say about it, and a comparatively mean thing to say about consequentialism
For comparison, as I read that it sounded like a mean thing to say about deontology and a neutral thing to say about consequentialism. This may be because I have internalized consequentialist thinking so consequentialist related things sound better. Or maybe it is because I naturally associate ‘morality as terminal’ with ‘lies you tell people and stuff you try to force other people to do’.
That’s very interesting. If it happened in one direction—if morality being instrumental started out sounding good to you and bad to me—that could explain a lot of the apparent disconnect between consequentialists and non-.
For comparison, as I read that it sounded like a mean thing to say about deontology and a neutral thing to say about consequentialism. This may be because I have internalized consequentialist thinking so consequentialist related things sound better. Or maybe it is because I naturally associate ‘morality as terminal’ with ‘lies you tell people and stuff you try to force other people to do’.
That’s very interesting. If it happened in one direction—if morality being instrumental started out sounding good to you and bad to me—that could explain a lot of the apparent disconnect between consequentialists and non-.