Juno_Watt comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: Juno_Watt 02 May 2013 07:09:05PM 0 points [-]

Quite a few of them no doubt. Of course, the overwhelming majority of people who would say that burning the Quran or the Bible is inherently immoral would also say that it's immoral by virtue of the preferences of an entity that, on their view, is in fact capable of having preferences.

And, again, if destroying entity X is wrong because some other entity Y says so, that is not inherent.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 May 2013 08:28:45PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. Do you mean to say that you don't expect it to be said, or merely that those saying it are confused?

Comment author: Juno_Watt 07 May 2013 07:03:17PM 0 points [-]

The latter.