joe4 comments on Consolidated Nature of Morality Thread - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 April 2007 11:00PM

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Comment author: joe4 09 May 2007 08:53:31AM 0 points [-]

Of course. I am morally opposed to your basis for choosing morals; I am determined to show that it must lead to a contradiction.

If no moral preference is better than any other, then randomly assigning an arbitrary set of morals, from all possible sets of morals, to each individual person should be no better or worse than any other approach. However, I see the consequences of such an experiment as potentially creating utter chaos and destruction leading to the downfall of the human race.

Certainly the survival of our race must be better than the alternative.