quentin comments on Emotional Basilisks - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: OrphanWilde 28 June 2013 09:10PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 June 2013 11:04:38PM 7 points [-]

Would you kill babies if it was intrinsically the right thing to do? If not, under what other circumstances would you not do the right thing to do? If yes, how right would it have to be, for how many babies?

EDIT IN RESPONSE: My intended point had been that sometimes you do have to fight the hypothetical.

Comment author: quentin 28 June 2013 11:28:21PM *  1 point [-]

I don't see how this relates to the original post, this strikes me as a response to a claim of objective/intrinsic morality rather than the issue of resolving emotional basilisks vis-a-vis the litany of tarsky. Are you just saying "it really depends"?