Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Either way, there's always a precise parallel — deontologists usually offset their categorical prohibitions with a bunch of empirical claims designed to generate the result that following their rules leads to good outcomes. — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess the way I (a consequentialist) would put it is that encouraging people to behave with common decency has pretty good consequences, which is why common decency is generally held to be praiseworthy. — PolitiTweet.org

Consequentialists usually offset their dogmatic moral theory with a bunch of dogmatic empirical claims in a despera… https://t.co/7dvTsR14qN

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You see this clearly with libertarian economists. They dislike consequentialism because they associate it with redistribution, but they also all strongly believe that redistribution is very bad for economic growth. Nobody is like "let's immiserate the world for freedom." — PolitiTweet.org

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