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

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

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Comment author: Peterdjones 28 April 2011 06:46:36PM -1 points [-]

Can people reason that bloodthirst is not a good preference to have...?

Comment author: [deleted] 28 April 2011 07:01:21PM 2 points [-]

Even if there's no such thing as objective right and wrong, they might easily be able to reason that being bloodthirsty is not in their best selfish interest.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 April 2011 01:12:08AM -2 points [-]

bloodthirsty is not in their best selfish interest.

If there's no right or wrong, why does that matter?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 April 2011 03:15:07AM 1 point [-]

I don't understand the question, nor why you singled out that fragment.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 April 2011 03:32:59AM 0 points [-]

When you say "Even if there's no such thing as objective right and wrong" you're still implicitly presuming a default morality, namely ethical egoism.