Maybe just a touch more deontology please
January 25, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Maybe just a touch more deontology please
But let’s consider the differences between them from a few perspectives.
For deontology: we do have a civic duty to critique our institutions to actually provide for us: this is the classic social contract.
In turn do we have a civic duty to vote according to harm reduction?
For deontology: we do have a civic duty to critique our institutions to actually provide for us: this is the classic social contract.
In turn do we have a civic duty to vote according to harm reduction?
January 25, 2026 at 10:54 PM
But let’s consider the differences between them from a few perspectives.
For deontology: we do have a civic duty to critique our institutions to actually provide for us: this is the classic social contract.
In turn do we have a civic duty to vote according to harm reduction?
For deontology: we do have a civic duty to critique our institutions to actually provide for us: this is the classic social contract.
In turn do we have a civic duty to vote according to harm reduction?
Fair enough about causation I suppose. You make a good point about deontology often making for a better heuristic for decision making: consequentialism and utilitarianism, no matter how much sense they make, are pretty awkward there in that regard !
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Fair enough about causation I suppose. You make a good point about deontology often making for a better heuristic for decision making: consequentialism and utilitarianism, no matter how much sense they make, are pretty awkward there in that regard !
At it's core, this is just a trolley problem, right? Do you take an action that kills one person to save multiple lives? We're getting into deontology versus consequentialism.
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
At it's core, this is just a trolley problem, right? Do you take an action that kills one person to save multiple lives? We're getting into deontology versus consequentialism.
Like epistemic collapse is the goal. "sense-making is broken, get down here in the mud with us". Deafened by cognitive dissonance themselves, they find their only glee striking the gong for the reactions it creates.
It is an 'idiology' I guess - deontology rooted in a wilful solipsism.
It is an 'idiology' I guess - deontology rooted in a wilful solipsism.
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Like epistemic collapse is the goal. "sense-making is broken, get down here in the mud with us". Deafened by cognitive dissonance themselves, they find their only glee striking the gong for the reactions it creates.
It is an 'idiology' I guess - deontology rooted in a wilful solipsism.
It is an 'idiology' I guess - deontology rooted in a wilful solipsism.
📢Good news of the day 🥳 the ethically unacceptable 💉HBV0 vs nothing RCT in Guinea-Bissau proposed by @stabellbenn.bsky.social and supported by RFK has been cancelled *again*! ⛔ 😅
Well done Africa CDC, @pauloffit.bsky.social , and all the people who stood up for deontology and their rights! ✊
Well done Africa CDC, @pauloffit.bsky.social , and all the people who stood up for deontology and their rights! ✊
NEW: Kennedy's plan to study Hep. B vaccine in African babies has been suspended by Guinea-Bissau. Experts say the trial is unethical in a nation where 1 in 5 kids are exposed to Hep. B, which can take decades off their lives. HHS: the trial is "paused."
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Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked
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January 23, 2026 at 3:56 AM
📢Good news of the day 🥳 the ethically unacceptable 💉HBV0 vs nothing RCT in Guinea-Bissau proposed by @stabellbenn.bsky.social and supported by RFK has been cancelled *again*! ⛔ 😅
Well done Africa CDC, @pauloffit.bsky.social , and all the people who stood up for deontology and their rights! ✊
Well done Africa CDC, @pauloffit.bsky.social , and all the people who stood up for deontology and their rights! ✊
I'm reading about kantian deontology for a class, and there's no way this dude Kant wasnt autistic
January 23, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I'm reading about kantian deontology for a class, and there's no way this dude Kant wasnt autistic
Why have you removed the part, just after those words, when he says: "I am a dictator" ?
#journalism #deontology ?
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#journalism #deontology ?
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President Trump:
Usually, they say, he's a horrible dictator-type person. I'm a dictator.
But sometimes you need a dictator. And no, it's common sense.
Usually, they say, he's a horrible dictator-type person. I'm a dictator.
But sometimes you need a dictator. And no, it's common sense.
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Why have you removed the part, just after those words, when he says: "I am a dictator" ?
#journalism #deontology ?
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#journalism #deontology ?
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and the shift from deontology (external rules) to more virtue (internalized rules), "it could construct any rules we might come up with itself"
> you are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human heart
> you are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human heart
January 21, 2026 at 6:20 PM
and the shift from deontology (external rules) to more virtue (internalized rules), "it could construct any rules we might come up with itself"
> you are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human heart
> you are a letter from Christ... written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human heart
Your strawman dismissal fallacy (your misrepresenting my post as committing a fallacy of equivocation) illustrates your recalcitrant sophistry on your misunderstanding & misrepresentation of Kant's deontology❗
I mean the following claim polysemantically:
"You sure don't seem the Model UN type."
I mean the following claim polysemantically:
"You sure don't seem the Model UN type."
January 21, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Your strawman dismissal fallacy (your misrepresenting my post as committing a fallacy of equivocation) illustrates your recalcitrant sophistry on your misunderstanding & misrepresentation of Kant's deontology❗
I mean the following claim polysemantically:
"You sure don't seem the Model UN type."
I mean the following claim polysemantically:
"You sure don't seem the Model UN type."
We should instead ask people where exactly their character falls on the "deontology / consequentialism / virtue ethics" spectrum.
/s (but it would be funny)
/s (but it would be funny)
January 21, 2026 at 12:16 AM
We should instead ask people where exactly their character falls on the "deontology / consequentialism / virtue ethics" spectrum.
/s (but it would be funny)
/s (but it would be funny)
Kant reveals a facet of our complex morality. One's preference for his deontology has nothing to do with smugness; you've committed an ignoratio elenchi fallacy here in your projected misunderstanding.
His deontology has NOTHING to do with empathy or consequences. You know nothing of Kant's ethics.
His deontology has NOTHING to do with empathy or consequences. You know nothing of Kant's ethics.
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Kant reveals a facet of our complex morality. One's preference for his deontology has nothing to do with smugness; you've committed an ignoratio elenchi fallacy here in your projected misunderstanding.
His deontology has NOTHING to do with empathy or consequences. You know nothing of Kant's ethics.
His deontology has NOTHING to do with empathy or consequences. You know nothing of Kant's ethics.
I found a good topic for the deontology-consequentialism question for my next exam.
January 20, 2026 at 7:19 AM
I found a good topic for the deontology-consequentialism question for my next exam.
Kant's deontology is focussed entirely on your intention. Got it.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Kant's deontology is focussed entirely on your intention. Got it.
No matter how good lying feels or sounds, or how popular it might make you, it's USUALLY wrong.
* Saving lives makes lying to Nazis to save Jews (as the classic thought experiment of Deontology vs Teleological ethics) is obviously an exception.
* Saving lives makes lying to Nazis to save Jews (as the classic thought experiment of Deontology vs Teleological ethics) is obviously an exception.
January 19, 2026 at 1:49 AM
No matter how good lying feels or sounds, or how popular it might make you, it's USUALLY wrong.
* Saving lives makes lying to Nazis to save Jews (as the classic thought experiment of Deontology vs Teleological ethics) is obviously an exception.
* Saving lives makes lying to Nazis to save Jews (as the classic thought experiment of Deontology vs Teleological ethics) is obviously an exception.
taught this every time I did NSW ethics briefs. More valuable for most practitioners, in my assessment, than anything on utilitarianism/deontology/whatever.
January 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
taught this every time I did NSW ethics briefs. More valuable for most practitioners, in my assessment, than anything on utilitarianism/deontology/whatever.
whenever i say the word 'deontology' i make sure to add an undertone of disgust
January 18, 2026 at 4:28 PM
whenever i say the word 'deontology' i make sure to add an undertone of disgust
*whispers* The sooner we, as a species, realize the entire field of deontology was initially developed/popularized as anti-monarchist propaganda, and has since outlived it’s usefulness, the better.
January 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM
*whispers* The sooner we, as a species, realize the entire field of deontology was initially developed/popularized as anti-monarchist propaganda, and has since outlived it’s usefulness, the better.
You can read Dugin/Putin's deontology in the fascist obbligati of Bannon, Trump, Miller, Faragé, Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC, & many others.
It has flourished under the guise of "legitimate concerns".
Captain America punched fascists. Please come back, Steve Rogers, it's that time again.
It has flourished under the guise of "legitimate concerns".
Captain America punched fascists. Please come back, Steve Rogers, it's that time again.
January 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
You can read Dugin/Putin's deontology in the fascist obbligati of Bannon, Trump, Miller, Faragé, Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC, & many others.
It has flourished under the guise of "legitimate concerns".
Captain America punched fascists. Please come back, Steve Rogers, it's that time again.
It has flourished under the guise of "legitimate concerns".
Captain America punched fascists. Please come back, Steve Rogers, it's that time again.
A moral philosophy paper recently written by me, presenting a new liar paradox-like argument about contradictions within consequentialism:
https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP
#philosophy #ethic #consequentialism #Deontology #metaethics #morality #paradox #research
https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP
#philosophy #ethic #consequentialism #Deontology #metaethics #morality #paradox #research
January 17, 2026 at 4:59 PM
A moral philosophy paper recently written by me, presenting a new liar paradox-like argument about contradictions within consequentialism:
https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP
#philosophy #ethic #consequentialism #Deontology #metaethics #morality #paradox #research
https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP
#philosophy #ethic #consequentialism #Deontology #metaethics #morality #paradox #research
I was mostly saying that I think that if you can manage a system which somehow uses various pieces of different systems and rejected the parts that don‘t work, that in itself could be a fully defined system. But I don’t think you can do that.
And I reject deontology out of hand, I think.
And I reject deontology out of hand, I think.
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I was mostly saying that I think that if you can manage a system which somehow uses various pieces of different systems and rejected the parts that don‘t work, that in itself could be a fully defined system. But I don’t think you can do that.
And I reject deontology out of hand, I think.
And I reject deontology out of hand, I think.
To me it feels like deontology and utilitarianism are two pieces of a whole rather then competing philosophies.
Deontology serving as safeguards and guide rails for the more exploratory Utilitarianism.
Deontology serving as safeguards and guide rails for the more exploratory Utilitarianism.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
To me it feels like deontology and utilitarianism are two pieces of a whole rather then competing philosophies.
Deontology serving as safeguards and guide rails for the more exploratory Utilitarianism.
Deontology serving as safeguards and guide rails for the more exploratory Utilitarianism.
My question is why not have a mixed method of philosophy ?
It seems pretty obvious that Utilitarianism and Deontology both fall flat when they try to separately navigate the complex moral terrain.
At the same time there are obviously things we just have to take a strict deontological stance on.
It seems pretty obvious that Utilitarianism and Deontology both fall flat when they try to separately navigate the complex moral terrain.
At the same time there are obviously things we just have to take a strict deontological stance on.
January 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
My question is why not have a mixed method of philosophy ?
It seems pretty obvious that Utilitarianism and Deontology both fall flat when they try to separately navigate the complex moral terrain.
At the same time there are obviously things we just have to take a strict deontological stance on.
It seems pretty obvious that Utilitarianism and Deontology both fall flat when they try to separately navigate the complex moral terrain.
At the same time there are obviously things we just have to take a strict deontological stance on.
"deontology" "consequentialism" what if being a human was beautiful
January 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"deontology" "consequentialism" what if being a human was beautiful
“And so evil acts can never be justified under deontology, but consequentialism’s focus on outcomes allows for sometimes committing evil acts in the pursuit of good outcomes, and so deontology is the way to go if one wants to avoid justifying evil actions.”
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January 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM
“And so evil acts can never be justified under deontology, but consequentialism’s focus on outcomes allows for sometimes committing evil acts in the pursuit of good outcomes, and so deontology is the way to go if one wants to avoid justifying evil actions.”