thomblake comments on Quantifying ethicality of human actions - Less Wrong

-14 Post author: bogus 13 October 2009 04:10PM

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Comment author: thomblake 14 October 2009 01:31:04PM 0 points [-]

Besides, throwing out Western moral philosophy entirely without further comment would not be making it "practically useful".

Indeed. I see no profit in making something hopelessly garbled into something practically useful, rather than inventing something new to serve that purpose. For similar reasons we're mostly atheists, rather than saying we're Christians and then redefining "God" and various metaphysical 'beliefs' to mean something coherent.

Comment author: bogus 14 October 2009 01:47:03PM *  -1 points [-]

For similar reasons we're mostly atheists, rather than saying we're Christians and then redefining "God" and various metaphysical 'beliefs' to mean something coherent.

And yet we mostly recognize the usefulness of various forms of religion. So, perhaps we should describe ourselves as "religious" as much as Confucians do, or at least as following some moral code and practicing a form of ethics.