Paul_Gowder comments on Rationality Quotes 7 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Paul_Gowder 27 January 2008 09:03:07AM 0 points [-]

Ben: you're supposed to recoil. The point is that some things are pre-analytically evil. No matter how much we worry at the concept, slavery and genocide are still evil -- we know these things stronger than we know the preconditions for the reasoning process to the contrary -- I submit that there is simply no argument sufficiently strong to overturn that judgment.