[pjc50]

After a couple of decades I've concluded that you need both. Virtue ethics gives you things like the War on Drugs and abortion bans; justification for having enforcement inflict real and significant harms in the name of virtue.

Virtue ethics is open-loop: the actions and virtues get considered without checking if reality has veered off course.

Consequentialist is closed-loop, but you have to watch out for people lying to themselves and others about the future.