Danny Duchamp

Against Moral Nihilism     Video version of this article here:  https://youtu.be/OExAQkmBBkU   Consequentialist: Whether an action is good or evil depends only on the consequences of that action. Deontologist: Not true. Sometimes bad actions can have good results, or vice versa. For example, should a doctor kill one healthy patient, cut his organs out, and redistribute them to the five sick dying patients who would be saved by those organs? Obviously not. This would have good results on net—four lives saved! But it's still murder, and therefore evil, so morality isn't determined by consequences. Consequentialist: That action may not have good results. You're leaving out the possibility that I'll be caught and the damage that will do to trust in the medical profession. You're leaving out the chance that I will screw up one or more of the requisite surgeries resulting in more death. You're leaving out the question of how many years of life the healthy patien