Kaj_Sotala comments on What is moral foundation theory good for? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 August 2012 08:30:12AM 7 points [-]

This sounds like saying that wealth is of course unevenly distributed, but the set of people whose height in inches is an even number has the same amount of wealth as the set of people whose height in inches is an odd number. Which is probably true, but also completely irrelevant for any discussion about inequality of wealth. You can always define two groups using some criteria that makes them come out the same, but the point isn't to compare arbitrarily defined groups, it's to compare indviduals.