Vladimir_Nesov comments on Soulless morality - Less Wrong

20 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 March 2009 09:48PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 March 2009 11:49:37PM 2 points [-]

Also, killing civilians motivates enemy soldiers and stimulates the spontaneous formation of militia.

This is circular (it indeed true). It supposedly motivates soldiers for the same reason: in the abstract, they consider death of their fellow civilians worse than death of their fellow soldiers.