Alicorn comments on Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 31 January 2010 11:24:23PM 3 points [-]

Right, so a moral relativist is a kind of moral absolutist who believes that the One True Moral Rule is that you must do what is the collective moral will of the species you're part of.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 January 2010 11:39:49PM 5 points [-]

Yup, and so long as I'm going to be a moral absolutist anyway, why be that sort of moral absolutist?