timtyler comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 30 January 2011 08:12:07PM * 0 points [-]

Morality serves several functions:

It is a guide relating to what to do;
It is a guide relating to what behaviour to punish;
It allows for the signalling of goodness and virtue;
It allows agents to manipulate others, by labelling them or their actions as bad;

The lower items on the list have some significance, IMO.