Slider comments on Six Plausible Meta-Ethical Alternatives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Slider 06 August 2014 05:06:37PM -1 points [-]

As I read should here unqualified it means that natural selection favours certain kinds of beliefs ie those that help prosperity. Althought for some people it also means spesifications on in which prosperity to shoot for. I tend to be very suspicious of claiming one direction of radiation being better than another (before / unrelated to the genocide mechanism).

Although my concept deconstruction might have erased any "should" and might be a bit unstandard. It's not anymore about "good" and "evil" but what is possible and what's impossible. Some actions are highly dangerous and resource depleting being very nearly impossible and need to be offset by a lot of enabling features. Thus it's about which forms of life are maintainable, under which conditions and which have a half-life. In this way whether helium happens more than uranium is the same kind of question whether a code of conduct results in a prosperous society (say two forms of goverment) but just orders of magnitude more harder to answer. But does it mean that uranium is more evil than helium as elements? Humans know how to use uranium as part of global security so as natural resources it clearly can produce a human good.