Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesCole 11 June 2009 01:34:25PM *  2 points [-]

Ok, i skimmed that a bit because it was fairly long, but here's a few observations...

I think the default human behavior is to treat what we perceive as simply being what is out there (some people end up learning better, but most seem not to). This is true for everything we percieve, regardless of the subject matter - i.e. is nothing specific to morality.

I think it can -- sometimes -- be reasonable to stand by your intuition even if you can't reason it out. Sometimes it takes time to figure out and articulate the reasoning. I am not trying to justify obstinance and "blind faith" here! Just saying that sometimes you can't be expected to understand it straight away.

I don't see any justification given, in what you quote from Greene, for the claim that there's essentially no justification for morality.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 June 2009 02:02:47PM 2 points [-]

I think it can -- sometimes -- be reasonable to stand by your intuition even if you can't reason it out.

Where do you think technical certainty comes from? How do you know to believe in logic? That's all just highly distilled and reflectively processed forms of gut feeling.