Normal_Anomaly comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong
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Phrasing the moral example this way is likely to cause participants in the discussion to get mind-killed and not conductive to get them to reason freely.
In particular it distracts here from the strawman he's making. Most atheists do think that there something wrong with rape and murder.
I think the problem is that Robertson doesn't know that.
Yes, he does. The whole claim underlying the argument is that atheists on some level know rape and murder are wrong, they just can't explain why.