Grognor comments on Morality open thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grognor 16 July 2012 04:13:50PM *  0 points [-]

My sense is that this assertion can be empirically falsified for all levels of abstraction below "Do what is right."

Indeed, this is one of many reasons why I am starting to think "go meta" is really, really good advice.

Edit: Clarification, what I mean is that I think virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, and the less popular ethical theories agree way more than their proponents think they do. At this point this is still a guess.

Comment author: TimS 16 July 2012 07:24:46PM 0 points [-]

I don't follow. Discussing theories of morality is already quite meta from the object level moral decisions we face in our daily lives. Going another level of meta is unlikely to illuminate - it certainly doesn't seem likely to be helpful in doing the impossible.