Eugine_Nier comments on Less Wrong Polls in Comments - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 September 2012 11:22:14PM 0 points [-]

I don't see this as anything to do with moral theory.

I don't understand what you mean here. Is your concept of moral theory only something for thought experiments involving Omega but to abstract to apply to day-to-day life?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 September 2012 06:19:54AM *  0 points [-]

No. I mean it in the same sense that we do not need to have a discussion of moral theory in order to agree on what actions we are talking about, when we talk about theft. We don't even need to have a discussion of moral theory to agree that we'd rather people didn't behave that way.