An argument isomorphic to yours can be used to demonstrate that spousal cheating is okay as long as there are no consequences and the spouse doesn't know. Maybe your concept of "valid objection" is overly narrow?
Rearranging the cards in a deck has no statistical consequence. Cheating on your spouse significantly alters the odds of certain things happening.
If you add the restriction that there are no consequences, there wouldn't really be much point in doing it because its not like you get sex as a result. That would be a consequence.
The idea that something immoral shouldn't be immoral if no one catches you and nothing bad happens as a result is an open problem as far as I know. Most people don't like such an idea but I hear the debate surface from time to time. (U...
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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