wnoise comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: simplicio 16 March 2010 08:16:21AM *  1 point [-]

I concur with Morendil that Rawls' "Veil of Ignorance" is a rather elegant way of showing morality to be conditionally objective.

Why would a strict social conservative consent to a contract that allowed me to have sex with multiple partners at the same time?

I think you may be overestimating the consistency of the social conservative viewpoint. If you were to tell them about how, when, where & why they could have sex, they would be outraged - even if you couched it in, say, biblical terms. I don't think many social conservatives really believe that sex is a community matter. They're just applying a good old fashioned double standard. Call them on their own sexual behaviour and they'll rush back to consensual ethics ("none of your business!") so fast you'll see Lorentz contraction.

Comment author: wnoise 16 March 2010 08:23:20AM 0 points [-]

Lorentz contraction. (Oddly enough, I made the opposite correction a week ago for the Lorenz attractor.)

Comment author: simplicio 16 March 2010 08:25:16AM 0 points [-]

Yikes, thanks!