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Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 January 2012 12:33:01AM -1 points [-]

The analogy between moral theories and physics seems to suggest that just as we expect modern physics to act like Newtonian physics when dealing with big slow objects, we should expect some modern moral theory to act like folk morality when dealing with ordinary human life situations. Does that hold?