Douglas_Knight comments on Unspeakable Morality - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 August 2009 05:57AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 August 2009 05:06:47AM 0 points [-]

What I should have meant was that the value of the objects is irrelevant to whether a person displays virtue in handling them.

Also, the revealed values of particular virtue ethicists is not so relevant--that fellow is probably just not virtuous. After all, ethicists are the least ethical of philosphers.