Ah, I see. You meant that consequentialists can’t use simplified or extreme hypothetical scenarios to talk about consequentialist morality as applied to real decisions, not that they can’t do it at all. That was implicit in your ticking-time-bomb example but not explicit in your opening, and I missed it.
Ah, I see. You meant that consequentialists can’t use simplified or extreme hypothetical scenarios to talk about consequentialist morality as applied to real decisions, not that they can’t do it at all. That was implicit in your ticking-time-bomb example but not explicit in your opening, and I missed it.
(I agree.)