teageegeepea comments on Unspeakable Morality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: teageegeepea 05 August 2009 03:00:08AM *  0 points [-]

and where it came from (evolution? culture?)

Once you know a source, how do you know whether it makes your morals more or less likely to be true? A lazy thinker would just wind up engaging in Bulverism.

only at the point of explaining why pain is a bad thing

Would you adapt that if speaking into the chronophone to a time before negative-utilitarianism?