DanielLC comments on r/HPMOR on heroic responsibility - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 August 2012 11:08AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 21 August 2012 06:07:41PM 3 points [-]

I don't buy Harry's argument. I call it ethical solipsism, thinking that you are the only one who has any ethical responsibility, and everyone else's actions are simply the consequences of your own.

Ironic. I consider anything else ethical solipsism. Why would it matter when it's your fault, but not when it's someone else's?

Also, I don't think Harry made an argument. He just defined heroic responsibility.

Comment author: PlacidPlatypus 25 August 2012 04:51:53AM 0 points [-]

I would say that he was making at least the argument that "this level of responsibility is something you should adopt if you want to be a hero", and probably the more general argument that "people should adopt this attitude toward responsibility.