Message from @Eris
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iirc theres 3 major ethics being virtue, utilitarian and deontologist but ethics is big gay and i dont read up too much on this
i'm not familiar with deontology
oh
yes i am
rule based ethics
yea
i.e. "the age of consent is 14 so it's ok!"
good/bad because DA RULES
this is not worth considering or mentioning by any reasonable human being
i think some people like it because it fixes some various ethic questions when it comes to deciding whether a decision is good/bad but again ethics is big gay
ethics is everything
i pretty much dont care about anything else
also the thing about utilitarians reducing suffering on prisoners isnt really on the mark imo. For the most part countries are reducing their suffering not due to some utilitarian ideas but more due to more people considering prison as not punishment but as reform. A utilitarian if possible would put all the harshest punishments on to one prisoner as an example for deterrent if it meant everyone else was "good" (happy) as a way to minimize total suffering. (from what i think)
after all one of the big memes on utilitarians is that if someone kicks dust in to enough people's eyes its worth the death penalty for him
No
the reform model is utilitarian
they see "punishment" and law in general as a consequentialist control scheme
we put you in prison to contain you so you can't hurt others, and then try to reform you to reduce your suffering and the suffering you inflict
the justice model sees neither of these as important or valid
you did something wrong
so something bad should happen to you
end of rationale
the justice model is not consequentialist
it doesn't punish people because society is better if you do
or for any consequence at all
it does so because it's just
guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one then because i dont really see reform model as necessarily utilitarian because i think its possible that you could argue it from virtue ethics also
any consequentialist position is working under the utilitarian model
agree
reform is a consequentialist position
it is modeled as an input->action->output
the criminal is not the way we want him to be
we must change him to be the way we want him to be
this is utilitarian
but you could also argue that reform is virtueous as it can be seen as society giving people a second chance
in a sense a societal forgiveness
that is contrary to justice
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