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Ethics

Title text: Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility.

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What do you think is the right ethics system for humans?

When a scientific study comes out showing that my pre-existing beliefs would produce the happiest outcomes, I am a utilitarian,

Hybrid.

When a scientific study comes out showing that my pre-existing beliefs would not produce the happiest outcomes, I keep my old position and insist my values are founded in iron moral law.

It's impossible to know what philosophy is best, which means some perspective always justifies me in changing nothing about myself in response to new information!

If your moral standards are openly self-contradictory, how can they be the right ones for humans?

God knows we are hypocrites and wants us to be happy.

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I'm a virtue ethicist who believes human flourishing is based on ego-preserving bad logic.

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