Viliam comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 07 August 2015 08:35:22AM 1 point [-]

Morality and belief in supernatural are mostly independent. (You can get Stage One morality from believing in God, but that's it.)

Comment author: [deleted] 07 August 2015 10:43:40AM *  1 point [-]

Um, it was actually a rhetorical question, showing the absurdity of the given interpretation of the quote, specifically that saying the quote encourages not to care about something, is akin to making an argument that claiming morality is not objective encourages people to be amoral.

Thank you for that link, though. That's a very nice framework.

Comment author: cody-bryce 09 August 2015 10:32:44AM *  1 point [-]
  1. GP clearly thinks so to, which is why they presented the question, clearly trying to accuse GGP of a similar equivocation.

  2. Your actual claim is ridiculous. It is most certainly not the case that believing in God can only connect to Stage One morality. Even in the face of a punishing god, this wouldn't be true, but not all gods are punishing anyway, making it even more off.