Sewing-Machine comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 01 May 2012 11:37PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 May 2012 04:14:51PM 1 point [-]

I think your idea that for people's lives to be worth living they need to have certain beliefs is one of your ugliest recurring themes.

Comment author: Multiheaded 23 May 2012 08:26:38PM 0 points [-]

I'm a moral anti-realist through and through, despite believing in god(s). I judge everyone and their lives from my own standpoint. Hell, a good citizen of the Third Reich might've found my own life pointless and unworthy of being. Good thing that he's shot or burnt, then. There's no neutral evaluation.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 May 2012 08:30:10PM 0 points [-]

You don't sound like a moral anti-realist at all.

Comment author: thomblake 23 May 2012 08:37:18PM 1 point [-]

I judge everyone and their lives from my own standpoint... There's no neutral evaluation.

You sound like a subjectivist moral realist.

Possibly even what we tend to call "subjectively objective" (I think we should borrow a turn of phrase from Epistemology and just call it subject-sensitive invariantism).