Think I've moved away from Kantianism and toward some looser rule-based belief. Two points:
- Deontology, as a term, is actually mutually exclusive to utilitarianism, as it was only first used in the 20th century in Britain as the hodgepodge of theories that reject the methods of utilitarianism.
Every action is a consequence of something and a cause of something else. Thus, saying that "an action is right or wrong depending on whether its consequences are right or wrong", which only amounts to shifting the question of whether its right or wrong forward, without ever providing a substantial answer. And the fun thing is, you can do this over and over, since every consequence is itself the cause to further consequences! At the end of the day, this allows consequentialists to defend the morality of basically anything
This is not serious. Who says people should be infinitely forward looking?
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