Nominull comments on Betrand Russell's Ten Commandments - Less Wrong

3 Post author: quanticle 06 May 2012 07:52PM

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Comment author: Nominull 06 May 2012 08:40:15PM 14 points [-]

If you want to make moral claims about the value of honesty, make moral claims about the value of honesty. Don't dress them up as pragmatic claims about the usefulness of honesty, because then if your claims aren't true the whole thing comes tumbling down.