Good discussion you had with Lance! Now when we have our conversations I’ll hear an Irish accent in your responses. :-)

It seems like everyone goes through their utilitarian phase. But as a moral-anti-realist myself, I’ve reached the point where both consequentialist and deontological philosophies feel more like attempts to justify the answer we want than something anyone seriously uses to decide how to act.

Virtue ethics isn’t perfect either, but at least it has no conceit that it’s finding some objective answer of good or bad. It’s more identifying what’s right for someone to live the good life, or in some cases, what the signs are of someone living the good life.

Maybe I lack imagination, but I’ve just never felt the pull of the many-worlds interpretation on any of this. The other versions of me, if they’re there, feel too much out of my experience or control.