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“Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.”

Quote by Dale Jamieson

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Limited information is available about Dale Jamieson, who was born on October 21, 1947, and is of an unknown profession. more

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“What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse, yet many of the objections to Consequentialism purport to show that Consequentialism requires us to make the world a stinking, bloody mess. The ubiquity of these kinds of arguments shows you just how unseriously many of the critics take Consequentialism.”

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“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.”

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