Consequentialism

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consequentialism

Title text: This is why I randomly generate an ethical system every morning.

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Ethics should always be consequentialist.

Mavbe, but the problem is that you cant predict the future, especially in the very long term.

We need to consider not just our actions, but their potential results.

So your ethical system is basically "do what will probably be good in the short term, and to hell with whatever comes later."

Yeah, but it's okay because science keeps improving our ability to predict. So, the short term" we can predict gets longer and longer until it encompasses the rest of the future.

That just creates a new problem: If you can

Your ethical framework only works if you believe humans will always be smarter

Predict the future perfectly, there is no ethics because everything is pre-determined.

Than, say, cows but pretty much idiots on a cosmic scale.

Which actually.

This is the best of all possible worlds!

Huh.

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Humans

predictive power

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