jsalvatier comments on Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? - Less Wrong
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That's not the issue for me. I do, basically, claim the same argument that Greene makes. I was only trying to say that I can't add every qualification and clarification without the post ballooning to something like 40 pages. But I'm happy to respond to individual questions and objections outside the main body of the post, as I did above.
So now your objection is to my tone? That's only DH2 on the disagreement heirarchy. I'll take another look at my tone, but it's not much of a disagreement if we're disagreeing about tone.
I already responded to this in my last comment. The point isn't that consistent pro-lifers would charge abortionists with murder even though the current laws don't consider abortion to be murder. The point is that consistent pro-lifers who think abortion is murder would seek to change the laws so that abortion would legally be considered murder and abortionists could legitimately be charged with committing murder (or with paying a doctor to commit murder).
Edit: I did notice some confusing language in my fourth paragraph, which I've updated thanks to your comments.
Luke, I think you often come across as defensive. I think it is difficult to avoid since you write a lot and thus put yourself out there for people to criticize and people do often comment in an aggressive fashion, but I think you should be aware of it anyway. I think avoiding seeming defensive would be useful to you because seeming defensive seems to make discussions more adversarial.
The phrase that gives me that impression here is
I am a neutral observer of this conversation; I've only read the last two comments.
Thanks for your feedback. For whatever reason, this turned out to be one of the most impacting comments I've received this year.
Glad to be of service :)