komponisto comments on Less Wrong views on morality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 05 July 2012 07:30:30PM *  19 points [-]

People here seem to share anti-realist sensibilities but then balk at the label and do weird things for anti-realists like treat moral judgments as beliefs, make is-ought mistakes, argue against non-consequentialism as if there were a fact of the matter, and expect morality to be describable in terms of a coherent and consistent set of rules instead of an ugly mess of evolved heuristics.

I'm not saying it can never be reasonable for an anti-realist to do any of those things, but it certainly seems like belief in subjective or non-cognitive morality hasn't filtered all the way through people's beliefs.

Comment author: komponisto 05 July 2012 10:54:37PM 0 points [-]

Well said.