TimS comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 11 June 2012 01:56:52AM *  0 points [-]

Who says that a society's moral values don't have causes? The issue is whether those causes are historically contingent (colloquailly, whether history could have happened in a way that different moral positions were adopted in a particular time and place).

Alternatively, can I suggest you taboo the word justification? The way I understand the term, saying moral positions are justified is contradicted by the proliferation of contradictory moral positions throughout time. (But I'm out of the mainstream in this community because I'm a moral anti-realist)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 June 2012 02:28:05AM 2 points [-]

The way I understand the term, saying moral positions are justified is contradicted by the proliferation of contradictory moral positions throughout time.

Would you apply the same logic to physical propositions? Would you claim that, for example, saying that astronomical positions are justified is contradicted by the proliferation of contradictory astronomical positions throughout time?

Comment author: TimS 11 June 2012 02:34:56AM 0 points [-]