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Dear Arising_uk/Ginkgo, I don't think I am saying that a consequentialist WILL NOT help, rather it seems easier to justify not helping using a consequentialist argument. This supports my confirmation bias that consequentialism is not a good basis for ethics! Incidentally at the moment I am not convi...

You're saying that morality is acting from a sense of duty instilled by our most dangerous institutions, religion and government.

Only if you are a Kantian.

The biggest problem with religious belief (in a general sense) is consistency. Get three apparently "similar" believers in a room and before long you find that each has a different conception of their God, praxis etc. Even atheists disagree on what they don't believe in! Linda's opening ga...

...and of course the weakness of the Kantian approach is whose duties are better than others...

This threads seems to show quite nicely the advantage of adopting a virtue ethics approach!

Oh, yes, there's a point to all of this. Let's face it, you didn't do anything wrong. The kid was 100% at fault, and in an AEP society, most people would probably do exactly what you said. But in today's society, the only rational thing to do is check to see if there are any witnesses, and if not, ...

1) A metaphysical dichotomy between the set of all possible states of existence and no states of existence proves that the set of all possible states of existence happens to be the case, which includes a constraint on all possible states of existence because said constraint is logically possible. I...