Posted: Feb 11, 2018 12:43 am
Consequentialist ethics ( presumably not of the Randian kind?) carries with it one significant problem in common with many other ethical systems. To compare the validity of ethical systems some agreement has to be reached as to what exactly is a desirable outcome. Survival of the human race would appear to be an unarguably positive aim but there are many of a fundamentalist religious persuasion who hold earthly outcomes are insignificant in the light of some form of imagined ‘salvation after death’. It is almost impossible to have anything like a meaningful dialogue with these people. Such wouldn't matter apart from the terrifying fact they’re gaining ever more political power.