Jack comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: Jack 26 January 2010 09:15:11PM *  4 points [-]

Strictly, no. Virtue ethics is self-regarding that way. But it isn't like virtue ethics says you shouldn't care about other people's virtue. It just isn't calculated at that level of the theory. Helping other people be virtuous is the compassionate and generous thing to do.

Comment author: thomblake 26 January 2010 09:31:35PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, at least on the common (recent American) ethical egoist reading of virtue ethics.