Collins said he had no objection to rules and league directives.
INSIDE PITCH The day after R. A. Dickey was forced to snip off a pair of handmade bracelets in the middle of his start, Terry Collins said he had no objection to rules and league directives, only to their erratic enforcement.
In order to evaluate the incoherence objection to rule-consequentialism, we need to be clearer about the supposed location of an overriding commitment to maximize the good.
The objection to rule-consequentialism is that some familiar moral rules are necessarily, not merely contingently, justified (McNaughton and Rawling 1998; Gaut 1999, 2002; Montague 2000; Suikkanen 2008).
Another line of objection to rule-consequentialism has focused on its idea that the considerations that determine moral right and wrong must be suitable for public acknowledgement.
The best known objection to rule-consequentialism dies once we realize that neither the rule-consequentialist agent nor the theory itself contains an overriding commitment to maximize the good.
Another old objection to rule-consequentialism is that rule-consequentialists must be "rule-worshipers" — i.e., people who will stick to the rules even when doing so will obviously be disastrous.
A related objection to rule-consequentialism is that rule-consequentialism makes the justification of familiar rules contingent on various empirical facts, such as what human nature is like, and how many people there are in need or in positions to help.
In that case, there can be no in-principle objection to rules that prevent corporations from polluting, discriminating, buying elections, union-busting, maintaining unsafe working conditions, using child labor, and so forth.
Questions of formulation are also relevant in the later section on old objections to rule-consequentialism.
The judge would need to attend the session in order to rule on objections.
