Stabilizer comments on Rationality Quotes October 2012 - Less Wrong
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I guess there is a slight ambiguity in the way Nicholas Humphrey uses the word 'right' in the sentence: "none of this would give you a right to administer the poison". I doubt he is making a moral statement. What he is pointing out is that your beliefs will have to be judged by reality. Your beliefs do not affect the fact that what you are administering is poison.
In fact, he points out that having incorrect beliefs might make you morally less culpable. But it doesn't make you right.