I think what you’ve written is not an argument against consequentialism, it’s about trying to put numbers on things in order to rank the consequences?
Regardless, that wasn’t how I interpreted her case. It doesn’t feel like she cares about the total amount of systemic equality and justice in the world. She fundamentally cares about this from the perspective of the individual doing the act, rather than the state of the world, which seems importantly different. And to me, THIS part breaks consequentialism
I think what you’ve written is not an argument against consequentialism, it’s about trying to put numbers on things in order to rank the consequences?
Regardless, that wasn’t how I interpreted her case. It doesn’t feel like she cares about the total amount of systemic equality and justice in the world. She fundamentally cares about this from the perspective of the individual doing the act, rather than the state of the world, which seems importantly different. And to me, THIS part breaks consequentialism