Eugine_Nier comments on Pluralistic Moral Reductionism - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 01 June 2011 12:59AM

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Comment author: nshepperd 06 June 2011 04:02:59PM *  0 points [-]

What's contradictory about the same object being judged differently by different standards?

Here's a standard: return the width of the object in meters. Here's another: return the number of wavelengths of blue light that make up the width of the object. And another: return the number of electrons in the object.

You are tacitly assuming that the good guys are in the majority, However, sometimes the minority is in the right (as you and I would judge it), and need to persuade the majority to change their ways

No Universally Compelling Arguments seems relevant here.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 June 2011 02:21:27AM 1 point [-]

No Universally Compelling Arguments seems relevant here.

You realize that the linked post applies to arguments about mathematics or physics just as much as about morality.