AllanCrossman comments on Survey Results - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Yvain 12 May 2009 10:09PM

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Comment author: thomblake 13 May 2009 03:40:33PM 0 points [-]

14 people (10.9%) didn't believe in morality.

I'd really like to know what these folks are thinking. Are they using 'morality' in the way Nietzsche did when he called himself an amoralist? Or do they really think there's nothing to the concepts of 'good/bad' and 'right/wrong'?

Supposing one wants to open a pickle jar, and one considers the acts of (a)twisting the top until it comes off, (b)smashing the jar with a hammer, and (c) cutting off one's own hand with a chainsaw, do these folks think (for instance) that (a) is no better than (c)?

Comment author: AllanCrossman 13 May 2009 03:43:53PM 10 points [-]

I would guess that they would say that one can certainly have preferences, without there being anything worth calling "morality".