lackofcheese comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: lackofcheese 17 October 2014 02:57:07PM 3 points [-]

I don't agree.

Yes, at some level there are basic moral claims that behave like axioms, but many moral claims are much more like theorems than axioms.

Derived moral claims also depend upon factual information about the real world, and thus they can be false if they are based on incorrect beliefs about reality.