The ethics one-liner: a deontologist/virtue ethicist for consequentialist reasons
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-10-18
A pithy meta-ethics quip making the rounds: "I'm a deontologist/virtue ethicist for consequentialist reasons" — using consequentialist reasoning to justify adopting deontological or virtue-ethics commitments, a position often debated in the AI safety community.
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