eli_sennesh comments on Pluralistic Moral Reductionism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2013 01:35:36PM 1 point [-]

I would think that the Hypothetical Imperatives are useful there. You can thus break down your own opinions into material of the form:

"If the set X of imperative premises holds, and the set Y of factual premises holds, then logic Z dictates that further actions W are imperative.

"I hold X already, and I can convince logic Z of the factual truth of Y, thus I believe W to be imperative."

Even all those complete bastards who disagree with your X can thus come to an agreement with you about the hypothetical as a whole, provided they are epistemically rational. Having isolated the area of disagreement to X, Y, or Z, you can then proceed to argue about it.