CronoDAS comments on Shoulds can be changed to Cans - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Stabilizer 15 March 2014 09:05AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 March 2014 03:05:32AM *  1 point [-]

Isn't "ought implies can" a standard principle of ethics? (That is, if something is actually impossible, in the "building a perpetual motion machine is impossible" sense, you can't be morally obligated to do it.)