timtyler comments on The Aliens have Landed! - Less Wrong

33 Post author: TimFreeman 19 May 2011 05:09PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 19 May 2011 07:30:36PM 3 points [-]

I see, so you're saying that universal unreciprocated altruism fails as a universal moral imperative, not necessarily as a morality that some people might have. Given that you used the word "crazy" earlier I thought you were claiming that nobody should have that morality.

Comment author: timtyler 19 May 2011 07:42:51PM 3 points [-]

I think it is easily possible to imagine naturalists describing some kinds of maladaptive behaviour as being "crazy". The implication would be that the behaviour was being caused by some kind of psychological problem interfering with their brain's normal operation.