Comment on Open thread, November 2011

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:48:03 GMT

How do you compare two such lists?

People measure morality be comparing their agreement on moral choices. It's purely behavioral.

As a corollary, a morality that does not tell a person how to make a choice is functionally defective, but it is not immoral.

There are lots of ways of resolving moral disputes (majority rule, check the oracle, might makes right). But the decision of which resolution method to pick is itself a moral choice. You can force me to make a particular choice, but you can't use force to make me think that choice was right.

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