Seems like you are presuming that deontology or rule utilitarianism are somehow superior approaches to morality than somewhat looser 'rules of thumb'. Yet there is no proof of this and I challenge you to provide a proof or even provide some evidence for this.greenju wrote: Seems like you are not familiar with deontology, or with rule utilitarianism, or basically any ethical theory, being that virtually all of them talk about rigid rules and not about rules of thumb, those are primarily left to the philosophically uncultivated people to use.
Failing that, more general 'rules of thumb' cannot be so lightly dismissed.