Sewing-Machine comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 25 April 2011 04:53PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 April 2011 02:39:23PM -1 points [-]

I probably don't understand what you mean.

I think that it's easy to be an atheist -- i.e. one doesn't have to make any difficult definitions or arguments to arrive at atheism, and those easy definitions and arguments are correct. If you think it's harder than I do, that would be interesting and could explain why we have such different opinions here.

Comment author: Peterdjones 28 April 2011 02:46:39PM 0 points [-]

Fine. Then the atheist who doesn't have a difficult definition of God, isn't culpably refusing to explain her "new idea", and someone who thinks there is something to be said about morality can stick with the vanilla definition that morality is Right and Wrong and Such.