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Consequentialism FAQ

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0: Introduction 1: Whirlwind Metaethics 2: Morality Must Live in the World 3: Assign Value to Other People 4: In Which We Finally Get to Consequentialism 5: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number 6: Rules and Heuristics 7: Problems and Objections 8: Why it Matters PART ZERO: INTRODUCTION 0.1: Who are you? Where am I? You can find more about me at www.raikoth.net. This is the Consequentialist FAQ. 0.2: So what's all this then? Consequentialism is a moral theory, i.e. a description of what morality means and how to solve moral problems. Although there are several explanations of it online, they're all very philosophical, which means they love to define terms and debate details and finally conclude that it is an important issue which no doubt will need to be meticulously deconstructed for several more centuries. This FAQ is intended for a different purpose. It is meant to convince you that consequentialism is the right moral system, and that all other moral systems are subtly but disti

Consequentialism FAQ 173 captures 26 Sep 2011 - 13 Mar 2026 Oct NOV Dec 15 2015 2016 2017 success fail About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. Collection: reddit.com TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20161115073538/http://raikoth.net/consequentialism.html The Consequentalism FAQ (Formatted Answers and Questions) Table of Contents 0: Introduction 1: Whirlwind Metaethics 2: Moralit

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