Re:Vaccines don't cause autism
by Confusion on Friday September 17, 2010 @04:05PM
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Can't reply to trunnell's response to this, so I'll just leave this here:
The categorical imperative is a nice heuristic to determine whether some behavior will benefit the greater good, but it's also nothing more than that. There is nothing inherently 'ethically dubious' about deviating from a rule of thumb, firstly because the heuristic returns false positives and secondly because you may disagree whether something is a 'greater good'.
If you want to argue that this deviation from this rule of thumb is 'ethically dubious', you'll have to argue exactly that and not argue some blanket claim that everyone should disagree with.
The categorical imperative is a nice heuristic to determine whether some behavior will benefit the greater good, but it's also nothing more than that. There is nothing inherently 'ethically dubious' about deviating from a rule of thumb, firstly because the heuristic returns false positives and secondly because you may disagree whether something is a 'greater good'.
If you want to argue that this deviation from this rule of thumb is 'ethically dubious', you'll have to argue exactly that and not argue some blanket claim that everyone should disagree with.