I think it’s worth emphasizing that if “naive consequentialism” just means sometimes thinking the ends justify the means in a particular case, and being wrong about it, then that extends into the history of scandals far far beyond groups that have ever been motivated by explicitly utilitarian technical moral theory.
I think it’s worth emphasizing that if “naive consequentialism” just means sometimes thinking the ends justify the means in a particular case, and being wrong about it, then that extends into the history of scandals far far beyond groups that have ever been motivated by explicitly utilitarian technical moral theory.