Caledonian2 comments on What Would You Do Without Morality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 29 June 2008 03:09:07PM 2 points [-]

Suppose you learned, suddenly and definitively, that nothing is moral and nothing is right; that everything is permissible and nothing is forbidden.

I'd do precisely the same thing I would do upon being informed that an irresistible force has just met an immovable object:

Inform the other person that they didn't know what they were talking about.

Nothing is right, you say? What a very curious position to take.