FoolishOwlfoolishowl@social.coop
Nov 8, 2026, 3:50 PM@kyle_pegasus @alexandra If your rules lead you to side against human liberation, burn the rules.
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- FoolishOwlfoolishowl@social.coopNov 8, 2026, 4:51 PM
@kyle_pegasus @alexandra I think we've had two centuries of hard lessons about the inadequacies of strictly deontological ethics, but some people have kept doubling down on it, beyond the point of absurdity.
Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶MrBerard@mastodon.acm.orgNov 8, 2026, 6:52 PM@foolishowl @kyle_pegasus @alexandra
This sentence works with the word 'utilitarian' too, and whilst the time period may be shorter, it has been much more grievous.
Like how apparently okay to book the ocean to build the machine god, because, ...uh, it's not clear, it's not built yet.
So maybe the problem is strictness rather than deontology.