If people said their moral decisions came from wanting to make as many people as possible happier, then that would reveal a pretty consequentialist intuition.
The complication is that the distinctive aspect of consequetialism is that it makes this the only motive or consideration, and it’s hard to discover what the general public think about this as they’re not used to breaking morality down into all its component factors to find an exhaustive list of their motives or considerations.
If people said their moral decisions came from wanting to make as many people as possible happier, then that would reveal a pretty consequentialist intuition.
The complication is that the distinctive aspect of consequetialism is that it makes this the only motive or consideration, and it’s hard to discover what the general public think about this as they’re not used to breaking morality down into all its component factors to find an exhaustive list of their motives or considerations.