cousin_it comments on Open Thread: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 02 April 2010 12:22:59AM *  1 point [-]

How do you evaluate your actions as proper or improper, good or bad, right or wrong?

I don't fully understand how I tell good from bad. A query goes in, an answer pops out in the form of a feeling. Many of the criteria probably come from my parents, from reading books, and from pleasant/unpleasant interactions with other people. I can't boil it down to any small set of rules that would answer every moral question without applying actual moral sense, and I don't believe anyone else can.

It's easier to give a diff, to specify how my moral sense differs from that of other people I know. The main difference I see is that some years ago I deeply internalized the content of Games People Play and as a result I never demonstrate to anyone that I feel bad about something - I now consider this a grossly immoral act. On the other hand, I cheat on women a lot and don't care too much about that. In other respects I see myself as morally average.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 April 2010 09:16:51AM 2 points [-]

How has not demonstrating to people that you feel bad about something worked out for you?

Comment author: cousin_it 04 April 2010 06:35:18PM *  0 points [-]

Very well. It attracts people.