#17 As of now, that comment is appended with "citation needed", which is appropriate for such a bold claim. Cheers.

Well, at least is makes sense that modelling behaviour as a utility maximiser leads to unethical behaviour.

I've more of a problem with whether the study of ethics promotes ethical behaviour. Maybe not:
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2007/01/still-more-data-on-theft-of-ethics.html

:(.

Tis a thing of beauty, but largely useless to the ~10% of Euro and Japanese males that have red-green blindness.

Why not red-yellow-blue, or blue-yellow-green? (with apologies to the tritans and monochromats out there).

Something that bugs me about the whole discussion is the use of "simulate"; now even progressives are doing it. It's just drowning, K. There's no simulated anything. Sure, the unfortunates may not die (most of the time), doesn't matter:

'The consensus was that the new definition should include both cases of fatal and nonfatal drowning. After considerable dialogue and debate, the following definition was adopted: “Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid.”'
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/83/11/vanbeeck1105abstract/en/index.html