A calculus of comparative consequences is impossible. Every effort to develop one is a process of rationalizing bias. Consequentialism assumes, based on experience or thought experiments, that it can assess the consequences of a particular act. This position implies that one act causes consequences. These consequences can be evaluated, reduced to some kind of common … Continue reading The Impossibility of Comparative Consequences
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Maybe, Considering Consequences
The whole process of nature is a integrated process of immense complexity. You never know what the consequences will really be from apparent good or bad fortune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4TZMxkxySc
Three Branches of Ethics
The three branches of normative ethics (i.e., consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory) are a question of whether you think goodness is a relative, objective, or an intrinsic property, respectively.
