wedrifid comments on Rationality quotes: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 June 2010 12:47:17PM 2 points [-]

Wow. If he keeps playing around with words like that it should only take him two more paragraphs to 'prove' the existence of God.

Comment author: simplicio 19 June 2010 04:10:25AM 0 points [-]

Really?

I interpret him to be saying something fairly non-dualistic - namely, that morality is not an ontologically basic thing separate from physics.

He also may be saying that moral claims reduce to fact claims in some sense, which is almost true (you need to throw some values in as well).

Are you coming at this from the perspective of a moral nihilist?

Comment author: wedrifid 19 June 2010 10:23:41AM 2 points [-]

I interpret him to be saying something fairly non-dualistic - namely, that morality is not an ontologically basic thing separate from physics.

I did not like the particular way he was trying to make morality relate to physics. I thought it asserted a confused relationship between 'is' and 'ought'.

He also may be saying that moral claims reduce to fact claims in some sense, which is almost true (you need to throw some values in as well).

I think that was a point that he was at least trying to make and it is something I agree with.

Are you coming at this from the perspective of a moral nihilist?

No. That's for people who realise that God doesn't tell them what morality is and get all emo about it. I more take a 'subjectively objective' position (probably similar to what you expressed in the previous paragraph).

Comment author: Blueberry 19 June 2010 04:26:13PM 2 points [-]

That's for people who realise that God doesn't tell them what morality is and get all emo about it.

Succinctly stated. I love it.