wedrifid comments on A Sketch of an Anti-Realist Metaethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 24 August 2011 04:57:29AM *  4 points [-]

Then there is fact of the matter about which answers are moral, and we might as well call those that aren't, "incorrect".

It seems like a waste to overload the meaning of the word "incorrect" to also include such things as "Fuck off! That doesn't satisfy socially oriented aspects of my preferences. I wish to enforce different norms!"

It really is useful to emphasize a carve in reality between 'false' and 'evil/bad/immoral'. Humans are notoriously bad at keeping the concepts distinct in their minds and allowing 'incorrect' (and related words) to be used for normative claims encourages even more motivated confusion.