Why Care About the Moral Law?
Richard Y Chappell
Why Care About the Moral Law?
When it hurts overall well-being
Morality is made for man, not man for morality — William K. Frankena
My deepest objection to non-consequentialist ethics is that it seems to require incomprehensible preferences or intrinsic concern for things that simply make no sense to care about (non-instrumentally). As a result, if deontology were true, I’d rather be a beneficent amoralist, saying “screw morality; just be good.”
So whenever I see non-consequentialists appeal to.