blacktrance comments on Be comfortable with hypocrisy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blacktrance 08 April 2014 05:48:05PM 0 points [-]

"Right" and "wrong" mean something more than "bad for X and good for Y", they are normative, "wrong" meaning "what one ought not do". So if I believe that it's wrong to eat meat, I am saying something more than eating meat is bad for the chicken, I mean that I should not eat meat.