Ian_C. comments on Is Morality Preference? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ian_C. 05 July 2008 05:05:35AM 0 points [-]

I think there may be 3 essential types: 1. The whim type, who thinks whatever he wants in automatically right. 2. The authoritarian type who thinks that whatever society or religion says is automatically right. 3. The scientific type who thinks he has found a morality based in fact.

I don't think 3s should be lumped in with 2s. Yes, he is following an external standard, but it is because he thinks there is a reason to do so, and is open to reason to change his mind, unlike the 2s (or 1s for that matter).