Swimmer963 comments on Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants - Less Wrong

67 Post author: Yvain 31 March 2011 12:27AM

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Comment author: JackM 06 April 2011 12:51:27PM 0 points [-]

Thanks very much for your help on this DSimon. I really appreciate it.

You say "Being guilty over having done something bad is itself a moral good, no doubt, but it doesn't replace the bad moral state that was arrived at by doing the bad thing, it's just added to it."

Are you saying that one can be in two moral states in the same moment? How can that be?

Comment author: Swimmer963 06 April 2011 01:12:48PM 0 points [-]

Are you saying that one can be in two moral states in the same moment? How can that be?

Isn't this true all the time? Say you took money from your sister's wallet and lied to her about it...that's morally wrong...but you donated the money to charity, which is morally right.