In many situations it would be better to impose a punishment of torture than imprisonment. The fact that the U.S. justice system rejects torture as a punishment is the result of an anti-torture bias.
Overcoming Bias, though interesting, is firmly in the "we're super-rational and you're all superstitious morons", "most people are mindless lost sheep except the chosen rational atheist libertarian few" camp of blogs.
As a critique of this kind of thinking, this post gets it half right. But the problem is not really consequentialism, it's materialism.
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i agree he gets it half right. I'm not really convinced that Vox Nova is really more than half right however :-)
"most people are mindless lost sheep except the chosen rational atheist libertarian few" - it's strange how religious they can be...and I thought Southern Baptists were bad!
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