Incorrect comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Alejandro1 03 August 2012 03:33PM

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Comment author: Incorrect 04 August 2012 02:11:18PM 0 points [-]

On the face of it I would absolutely disagree with Wilde on that: to live a moral life one absolutely needs to distinguish between good and bad.

But is it necessary to divide people into good and bad? What if you were only to apply goodness and badness to consequences and to your own actions?

Comment author: dspeyer 05 August 2012 11:01:55PM 2 points [-]

If your own action is to empower another person, understanding that person's goodness or badness is necessary to understanding the action's goodness or badness.

Comment author: Incorrect 06 August 2012 02:33:16AM -2 points [-]

But that can be entirely reduced to the goodness or badness of consequences.