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Originally Posted by elphenor
I want a society that humans live in, to be a Human Society...responsive to ethics, not outcomes
that is to say that we should start with what is ethical...then work out what results we want from there
we create too many robotic systems based on Utilitarian principle imo
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You can't really separate ethics from outcome on a social level. By the time something requires a social response, it's often past the abstract state of pure ethics and well into the realm of action and outcome. I get where you're coming from though, many dishonestly define the ethics of a potential action by a hypothetical outcome that can easily be addressed case by case (the slippery slope fallacy, I guess) and on some level, public opinion molds itself around that framing and solidifies in the systems they support.