deontological

The first is the deontological, or institutional approach, e.g.

For example, deontological ethical reasoning is about navigating among conflicting duties, and licenses can certainly impose duties on people.

You may as well try to convince a lamp post of the validity of deontological ethics.

Think of it in terms of free software identity politics, or free software deontological ethics.

Because so much of grandstanding about torture is apparently from a deontological perspective (cf.

The fact that nobody was actually hurt in these two incidents doesn't alter the deontological basis for a rule against such behavior.

Yes, religions are firmly in the deontological camp and it showed during the millenia of superstition, witchhunts and obstruction of scientific progress.

It can be roughly summarized as a conflict between deontological and consequentialist ethics.

HN has historically subscribed to a form of deontological ethics[1] rather than utilitarianism.

As such, you're conducting a long, wasteful discussion on the basis of an absolutist, deontological rule you cannot convince the rest of us to adopt.

We're debating morality here, which is subjective, but I'm not stupidly deontological.

>The fact that nobody was actually hurt in these two incidents doesn't alter the deontological basis for a rule against such behavior.

You are assuming the rule "Never change the source code unless you have to" is a deontological imperative.

Stallman takes a philosophically deontological view of "because": Open source always benefits users.

I would recommend you to stop making such sweeping generalizations about "CS crowd" and educate yourself on deontological vs consequentialist ethics debate.

Existential security of the US is guaranteed by military supremacy, average daily life security of the US citizen in comparison with other western countries is quite low.[0] I think that the main problem of the US society's approach to punishment/justice/war is rooted in deontological ethics, which stems from high religiosity and "american values" propaganda.