scrafty comments on Fascists and Rakes - Less Wrong

39 Post author: philh 05 January 2014 12:41AM

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Comment author: scrafty 06 January 2014 12:33:47AM 5 points [-]

I don't see how the fact that the permissiveness principle is only based on one (two, actually, including the third one) of the six foundations would imply that it's not a widely-held intuition.

Comment author: knb 06 January 2014 05:33:44PM 3 points [-]

You're falsely conflating the permissiveness principle with those moral foundations. The permissiveness principle is a much stronger position, which states that things are only immoral if they cause harm.

Comment author: philh 07 January 2014 12:26:39AM 0 points [-]

I was thinking of the PP as more of a rule of thumb.