Quote:
Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I can see the dilemma with the trains being disrupted by the weather so not arriving there v flying being against their ethos.
|
It’s a key weakness of deontological (rules-based) ethical decision making. Consequentialism is often more helpful in these situations (though as a system it too has its drawbacks). As it happens his actions do arise from a consequentialist approach, but his problem arises from the fact that the Green movement often seems to form its messages in ways that imply we should be taking hard, deontological decisions. If they could bring themselves to sound more nuanced, rather than appearing simply to shout slogans from the barricades all the time, they would be less likely to cop flak on occasions like this.