hairyfigment comments on Philosophy professors fail on basic philosophy problems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 16 July 2015 06:26:13PM 1 point [-]

Very possibly. But I'm saying this seems more likely to happen with the Trolley Problem than with most philosophical questions, and even many disputed moral questions. It's not a question of "endorsing unpopular moral views" in some abstract sense, but the social message that even a smart human being might take from the statement in an ordinary conversation.