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

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Comment author: RichardChappell 02 July 2011 03:59:52PM 2 points [-]

What would you say to someone who does not share your intuition that such "objective" morality likely exists?

I'd say: be an error theorist! If you don't think objective morality exists, then you don't think that morality exists. That's a perfectly respectable position. You can still agree with me about what it would take for morality to really exist. You just don't think that our world actually has what it takes.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 03 July 2011 12:30:05AM 4 points [-]

Yes, that makes sense, except that my intuition that objective morality does not exist is not particularly strong either. I guess what I was really asking was, do you have any arguments to the effect that objective morality exists?